Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo (22 October 1890 – 20 December 1976) was an Indonesian politician who served as the first Governor of West Java in 1945.

[1] It was in this office that he made the 1936 Soetardjo Petition, which called for greater native autonomy in the Dutch East Indies.

Soetardjo later cited the repression of left-wing political leaders following the De Zeven Provinciën mutiny in 1933, and the weakening of the native Indonesian Sultanate of Yogyakarta and Surakarta Sunanate as his motivations for the petition.

[1] After the proclamation of Indonesian independence, Soetardjo was appointed as the Republican governor of West Java on 6 September 1945.

At that time, he was considered as the spokesman for the interests of the native bureaucracy, and he assured Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta of their support.