He was minister of economics when he took over as prime minister in 1948 after the former Dutch colonial rulers captured Sukarno at Jogjakarta, Central Java.
Attorney General Soekarton Marmosudjono, a navy commodore, was a law graduate of the state-run Gajah Mada University in Jogjakarta, Central Java.
Running between two cities, Solo and Jogjakarta, it had been hardened in the mid-60s with tar and tiny stones.