Soeprapto (prosecutor)

Mr. Raden Soeprapto
Official portrait, c. 1954
4th Attorney General of Indonesia
In office January 1951 – 1 April 1959
President	Sukarno
Preceded by	Tirtawinata
Succeeded by	Goenawan
Personal details
Born	(1894-03-27)27 March 1894 Trenggalek, Dutch East Indies
Died	2 December 1964(1964-12-02) (aged 70) Jakarta, Indonesia
Resting place	Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery
Occupation	Judge prosecutor

Soeprapto (27 March 1894 – 2 December 1964) was the fourth Attorney General of Indonesia. Born in Trenggalek, East Java, Soeprapto studied law in Jakarta, finding work in the legal system soon after graduating in 1920. After transferring often, in the early 1940s he reached Pekalongan and became the head of the court for Native Indonesians. Escaping Pekalongan during Operation Product with the help of a prisoner he had just sentenced, Soeprapto made his way to Yogyakarta and began to work as a prosecutor. When the government moved to Jakarta in 1950, Soeprapto went with it. In January 1951, he was selected to be Prosecutor General of Indonesia, serving until 1 April 1959.

As prosecutor general, Soeprapto was noted for trying state ministers and generals despite them outranking him, a quality which Amir Hasan Ketaren of the Prosecutors' Commission finds lacking from subsequent officeholders. He was declared "Father of the Prosecutor's Office" on 22 July 1967, with a bust of him erected outside the Prosecutor General's Office.