Early Life
Sjafruddin was born in Anyer Kidul, Banten on 28 February 1911, of a Bantenese father and Bantenese-Minangkabau mother. In 1931, he graduated from AMS in Bandung. He wanted to continued his study to Leiden, but his family finances did not afford, then he studied at Law Faculty in Jakarta and reached Meester in de Rechten degree in September 1939.
In 1939–1940 he was an editor of Soeara Timur, a journal sponsored by Soetardjo Kartohadikoesoemo. Syafruddin was more strongly nationalist than this however, refusing to join the Stadswacht (home guard), though he did in 1940 join the Dutch department of finance, retaining his job under Japanese occupation, working as a tax inspector.
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