Adnan Buyung Nasution, also known as Adnan Bahrum Nasution (20 July 1934 – 23 September 2015) was an

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lawyer, advocate, and activist.

Career

Nasution founded the Legal Aid Institute in Indonesia. He was well known as a human rights and pro-democracy activist during the reign of Indonesia's late President

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. One of the partners at his law firm was former

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Suryadi. From the years 2007 to 2009, Nasution was a member of the Presidential Advisory Council's Legal Department.

Notable cases

* In 1973, Vivian Rubiyanti Iskandar retained Nasution as counsel before the West Jakarta District Court. Nasution helped produce a ruling in favour of changing Vivian's legal gender to female, making her the first legally recognised transgender person in Indonesia.

Death

Nasution

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on 23 September 2015 from

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and

heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to Cardiac cycle, fill with and pump blood. Although symptoms vary based on which side of the heart is affected, HF ...

References

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