Soekiman Cabinet

The Soekiman Cabinet (Indonesian: Kabinet Soekiman), also known as the Sukiman-Suwirjo Cabinet (Indonesian: Kabinet Sukiman-Suwirjo), was an Indonesian cabinet that served from 27 April 1951 until it fell on 23 February 1952 following revelations that it had signed a mutual security agreement with the United States, and was dissolved on 3 April 1952.

On 21 March 1951, the Natsir cabinet fell due to loss of political support.

[1] Five days later, President Sukarno asked Indonesian National Party (PNI) leader and parliamentary chairman Sartono to form a coalition cabinet, but he admitted failure on 18 April.

Eventually the PNI gave in to Soekiman's demand for a Masjumi prime minister providing this was not Natsir, who had held the position in the previous cabinet.

[8] In August 1951, the cabinet embarked on aggressive mass arrests of communists, leftists and Chinese Indonesians.