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Y. B. Mangunwijaya

Died in 1999

Yusuf Bilyarta Mangunwijaya, known as Romo Mangun, was born on 6 May 1929 in Ambarawa, Java. Having joined the republican army at sixteen during the revolution, he then chose the priesthood and was ordained in 1959, before studying architecture in Aachen. Architect of the poor neighbourhoods along the Code river in Yogyakarta, defender of those evicted by the Kedung Ombo dam and opponent of the Suharto regime, he received the Aga Khan Award in 1992 and the Magsaysay Award in 1996. He died in Jakarta on 10 February 1999.

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