'''Muhammad Chudori''' (December 24, 1926 – March 23, 2013) was an Indonesian journalist. Chudori co-founded ''The Jakarta Post'' in 1983 and served as the newspaper's first general manager.<ref name=jpost>{{cite news|title=Senior journalist and ‘Post’ founder dies |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/03/24/senior-journalist-and-post-founder-dies.html |work=Jakarta Post |date=2013-03-24 |access-date=2013-04-12}}</ref>
Chudori was born in Indramayu, Java, on December 24, 1926.<ref name=jpost/>
He worked as a journalist for the Antara news agency from 1956 until his retirement in 1983.<ref name=jpost/> He predominantly covered foreign policy and the economy for Antara.<ref name=jpost/> He had also served as Antara's bureau chief in the Netherlands as well.<ref name=jpost/> Chudori had close contacts within the Indonesian government and has been described as well-versed in the economic policies of the Suharto government at the time.<ref name=jpost/> Suharto's Economic Minister Widjojo Nitisastro often included Chudori, a prominent economics reporter, as an official member of the Inter-Governmental Group for Indonesia (IGGI) annual meeting in The Hague.<ref name=jpost/>
In 1983, Chudori co-founded the English-language newspaper, ''The Jakarta Post'', shortly after retiring from Antara.<ref name=jpost/> He also became the first general manager of ''The Jakarta Post''. Chudori worked to form a coherent newspaper staff while avoiding the government censors of the Suharto government. According to The Jakarta Post's co-founder and first editor-in-chief Sabam Siagian, "We all came from different backgrounds. It was not easy as general manager in these circumstances with the task of producing a quality newspaper. Muhammad Chudori was once the Antara bureau chief in the Netherlands and was the eldest among us. He would listen patiently to our various arguments and endure our idiosyncrasies and gradually forged a working team...I think that was his biggest achievement."<ref name=jpost/>
In 1997, the Indonesian Ministry of Information honored Chudori for his career.<ref name=jpost/>
Chudori's health declined since he fell and broke his femur in the Fall of 2012. He underwent two surgeries following the accident.<ref name=jpost/> Muhammad Chudori died at his home in Bogor, West Java, on March 23, 2013, at the age of 86.<ref name=jpost/> He was survived by his wife, Willy Septiana, his daughter, Leila S. Chudori, a journalist and writer at Tempo magazine, and his granddaughter, Rain Chudori, a writer.<ref name=jpost/> He was buried in Karet Bivak Cemetery in Central Jakarta.<ref name=jpost/>
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