Mohammad Husni Thamrin (16 February 1894 – 11 January 1941) was a Eurasian-Betawi political thinker and Indonesian nationalist who advocated for the independence of the Dutch colony in the East Indies.

Thamrin was therefore born into a neo-priyayi class and in 1906, his father became district head (wedana) under Governor General Johan Cornelis van der Wijck.

[3] After graduating from Koning Willem III Gymnasium, Thamrin took several government jobs before working for ten years for the shipping company Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij.

[4] This was partly in response to the December 1929 arrests of Indonesian nationalist Sukarno and members of his Indonesian National Party and partly to counteract the reactionary Fatherlands Club (Vaderlandsche Club), which wanted to maintain Dutch control over the East Indies in perpetuity.

[5] Thamrin put forward several motions, including one to remove the power of the governor-general to exile political enemies of the state.

He realized that cooperating with the colonial regime offered a different way to oppose it, and he took full advantage of his immunity to prosecution conferred by his membership of the Volksraad.

[11] In May 1939, Thamrin spearheaded an effort to unite eight nationalist organisations, including Parindra, in the Indonesian Political Federation (Gaboengan Politiek Indonesia, or GAPI).

[12] On 6 January 1941, Thamrin's house was searched by the Political Intelligence Service (PID) as he had come under suspicion for supplying information to the Empire of Japan; he had previously maintained warm relations with Japanese residents of the Indies.

Large numbers of people attended his funeral, including the president of the Volksraad, who led a group of its members.