Ahmad Boestamam

Abdullah Thani bin Raja Kechi, commonly known as Ahmad Boestamam, was a Malaysian freedom fighter and politician. He was the founding president of Parti Rakyat Malaysia and Parti Marhaen Malaysia and former chairman of the Malaysian Social Justice Party. He was an editor and reporter for several newspapers and took a pen-name honouring Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. He was elected a member of parliament for Setapak in Malaysia' first post-independence elections in 1959, and served lengthy spells as a political prisoner.