Miriam Budiardjo
Miriam Budiardjo (20 November 1923, Kediri – 8 January 2007, Jakarta) was an Indonesian political scientist and diplomat. Budiardjo was Deputy Chair of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights, and she has been credited with co-founding the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Indonesia, of which she was Dean for 5 years. She was the first woman to serve as a diplomat for Indonesia, which she represented in several countries including in India and the United States. Life and career Budiardjo was born on November 20, 1923, in the city of Kediri in East Java. Her older brother was Soedjatmoko, and her younger brother was Nugroho Wisnumurti. She also had a sister, Siti Wahyuni, who would later marry Sutan Sjahrir. Budiardjo studied at the University of Indonesia. In the 1940s, she was active with the group of young activists who would later coalesce into the Socialist Party of Indonesia, and her activism led her to serve as the Secretariat of the Indonesian Delegation to the Renville Agreement. She then became a diplomat, which made her the first woman to be a diplomat for Indonesia, serving in posts that included New Delhi and Washington D.C. throughout the late