Hasan Ali (activist)

Hasan Ali (7 December 1933 – 14 June 2010) was an Indonesian artist and language activist from Banyuwangi Regency, East Java.

Hasan Ali was born on 7 December 1933 in the village of Mangir, in what is today Rogojampir district of Banyuwangi Regency.

[2] He was appointed to the municipal council (DPRD) of the regency as an artists' representative within the Indonesian National Party, serving between 1955 and 1966.

[3] Ali began work on an Osing–Indonesian dictionary in 1978, initially collecting vocabulary from day-to-day conversations in Banyuwangi and in migrant Osing communities nearby.

Their eldest daughter, Nur Indah Cintra Sukma Munsyi (better known as Emilia Contessa), became a nationally famous singer, actress, and a senator.