Biografi k.h agus salim

Agus Salim was born in West Sumatra Indonesia on October 8th 1884 with his surename, Musyudul Haq. Actually, Agus is his dearly nickname. His father is Sutan Muhammad Salim and his mother Siti Zaenab. His father was a prosecutor in Riau High Court, and is a respected position for local resident of the time. Upon this references he was enlisted in Dutch Elementary School, Europeese Lagere School (ELS), which was provided for European only.

Graduated from ELS in 1897, then he pursued school to Batavia (Modern day Jakarta) to Hogere Burger School (HBS), which was also for European. At the time, it was an unusual to see a local boy sent to European School, which was found only in three cities of Batavia, Bandung, and Surabaya.

Even since he was in ELS, Agus Salim had already made his excellency, and then earn his highest rank of HBS nationalwide, just when he was 19 years old. Obviously, a towering pride for his nation fellows had made out over imperialist’s masters.

His story of attainment had buzzed to R.A. Kartini who was then gave full support and encouragement to his plan of continuing study to Netherland, which then suspended for other reason. He had actually interested to join medical faculty, but had no enough money to go.
Stuck in the situation, he happened to requested scholarships from Dutch government, which was refused for a discriminational reason. He was told they should be European to earn government scholarship.

Gave up of rejected, he decided not to continue his education and got an offered to work as Netherland’s consulate for Saudia Arabian office in Jeddah. He was 22 years old at that time, but actually reluctant to be Netherland’s dragoman (translation advicer), because of his wrecked dream. His acceptance decision was made up because of his family encouragement –they witness Agus Salim’s religiousity had been eroded after joined into Netherland Schooled, then expected him to absorbed religious science from his uncle, Syaikh Ahmad Khatib who was settled in Mecca since 1876, as an Imam and honoured lecturer of Harramain Massajidal University.