Dr. Sahardjo LL.B., (EYD: Saharjo; 26 June 1909 – 13 November 1963) was a National Hero and Minister of Justice of Indonesia during the First, Second, and Third Working Cabinets.

[2] At first he taught at a private school, but he then became active in politics, joining and eventually leading the Indonesian Party (Partai Indonesia).

[5] During Sahardjo's time as Minister of Justice, there was also "fierce but publicly muted" debate regarding legal fundamentals such as nulla poena sine lege ('no penalty without a law').

[6] Sahardjo's preferred legal institution would be free of the "discriminatory" remnants of colonial law and included modified adat (traditional) laws—provided that they had been brought in line with the state philosophy of Pancasila.

[11] Scholar on Indonesian legal history Sebastiaan Pompe writes critically of Sahardjo, saying that he "actively destroyed the law in the name of prevailing revolutionary ideology, making himself obsolete in the process.