Sosrodiningrat V

He was also a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence, and served in various posts within the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

Sawarno was educated at an Europeesche Lagere School in Surakarta, before continuing to a Hogere Burgerschool in Semarang and graduating in 1913.

His other assignments included being an agricultural attache in Purwodadi, working in Semarang's municipal police, and becoming an aide to the regent of Surakarta.

He was given a regent title in 1936, and following his father's death in 1939 he became the Sunanate's pepatih dalem as Kanjeng Mas Raden Adipati Sosrodiningrat V.[1] During the Japanese occupation, Sosrodiningrat was first appointed as a member of the Central Advisory Council (Chūō San'gi In), before becoming a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence.

[1] On 17 October 1945, during the chaos in the early days of the Indonesian National Revolution, he was kidnapped by anti-feudal groups and held in East Java.