Rusiah Sardjono

Rusiah Sardjono ( – 13 November 1988) was an Indonesian politician who served as minister of social affairs from 1962 to 1966. She was one of the country's first female government ministers.

Biography There are conflicting reports on Rusiah Sardjono's date of birth, with some sources indicating 1919 but others indicating 1921.

During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, she was employed by a Japanese company before moving to the Indonesian Department of Justice, where she would work on and off for 20 years. While she was in office, Indonesian media commented on her then-unusual position as both a mother and a high-level politician. Sardjono served as minister until 1966.

She later became a member of the Supreme Advisory Council, one of only two women on the 79-member council as of 1983. She also worked as a professor at the University of Indonesia's Faculty of Law until her death in 1988.