Muhammad Ilyas | |
Office: | Ministry of Religious Affairs (Indonesia) |
Order: | 7th |
Term Start: | 12 August 1955 |
Term End: | 10 July 1959 |
President: | Sukarno |
Predecessor: | Masjkur |
Successor: | K.H.M. Wahib Wahab |
Birth Date: | November 23, 1911 |
Birth Place: | Kraksaan, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia |
Death Place: | Jakarta, Indonesia |
Nationality: | Indonesian |
Muhammad Ilyas (November 23, 1911, Kraksaan, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia – December 5, 1970, Jakarta, Indonesia, at the age of 59) was the Minister of Religious Affairs in 1955-1959 in the Burhanuddin Harahap Cabinet, Second Ali Sastroamidjojo Cabinet, and the Djuanda Cabinet in the reign of the first Indonesian president Sukarno.[1] He also served as Indonesian ambassador to Saudi Arabia for six years, from 1959.[2]
KH Muhammad Ilyas is the in-law of Muhammad Maftuh Basyuni, Minister of Religious Affairs in the United Indonesia Cabinet from 2004-2009.
In 1969, he led the Indonesian delegation following a Summit, which was attended by 26 Islamic countries in Rabat, Morocco which discussed the Palestine-Israel conflict.[3]