Nazril Hakim

Nazril Hakim is a Sumatran politician, known for being the first Commissioner of Indomalaya. He served from 2065 until being removed by a vote of no confidence in 2093.

> **"I thought the days of Indomalaya listening to madmen ended with Nazril Hakim"** - Freya Ibsen to Linkar Tayathein, 2266
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## Early Life

Nazril Hakim was born to a low income, single mother on 8th January 2027, in **Bengkulu, Indonesia**. With his mother unable to care for him, he was offered up for adoption. When that failed, Hakim was sent to an Islamic Missionary centre, that had, in recent years, become a place for orphaned and unwanted children to be raised. The centre was considered to be quite extreme, teaching Hakim a number of hard-line ideals. Hakim was raised in religious philosophy, leading to his desire to 'redeem the Malayan People', believing that they had strayed too far from the principles of their supposed religion. However, in 2042, the centre was closed down as a result of the Realm of Nordica's influence, believing centres like this were radicalising children of particularly vulnerable backgrounds. Finding himself in a much more liberal orphanage from age 15, Hakim became infuriated with the nation he found himself living in, as Java became increasingly more liberalised around this time, as part of plans to fully join the Realm of Nordica. He found himself unable to get a higher education, and with what little money he had, joined the right wing **Javanese National Party**.

## Political Career

Hakim would begin to run in local elections not long after, although frequently lost as he tried to challenge more left wing candidates in their safe seats. However, he grew wise to his action's futility, and began to run in more right wing areas, becoming able to win an elected position in 2058, having built up a decent voting base. he would continue to build support for his ideas, being one of the first to suggest a union of the malay peoples, or as he called it, the 'Nusantara Project'. As calls for this increased, the Javanese National party fused with the **Malaya National Party** and **North Sumatra National Party**, creating the **Nusantara National Party**, which he would continue under. Seeing that plans were being put into place for a union of Malaya, Myanmar, and Java, he sook permission to run for commissioner, giving he fit the age requirements, and had been one of the first to suggest a union. In an unexpected and hotly contested turn, he was voted to be the **First Commissioner of Indomalaya**.

## Commission Years

Hakim found his work difficult, and despite having the backing of the current government, frequently struggled with addressing the other members of The Realm of Nordica, especially Josef Matsson's Nordica. Matsson would fundamentally oppose Hakim in regards to his beliefs, although did not pose a threat to Hakim, with Matsson reasoning that the Indomalayans elected him, and that if his work wasn't as they desired, they would pressure their Representatives of state to utilise their powers to democratically remove him. However, politics in Indomalaya stagnated under the Nusantara National Party, with it becoming impossible to remove Hakim, especially when the largest opposition party, **The Integrationist Party** was **declared unconstitutional**. Over the coming years, Hakim struggled to balance the wishes of his party with the reservations of Matsson. However, when Matsson retired, it gave him an opportunity to establish himself, with Matsson's successor initially intervening less with Indomalaya. During this time, he began to truly push his ideas, and began to expand Indomalaya across Southeast Asia, admitting a number of new states, with the intention of either converting their inhabitants, or replacing them with Malayan people. Despite this, the increased population, only served to aid their opposition, especially since few in these new states were willing to support a party that actively sought to replace them. This allowed for a vote of no confidence to occur in 2293, which decided to remove Hakim from office, and began the process of electing a successor. Indomalaya would elect Lawrence Ata as Hakim's replacement, though Hakim would repeatedly claim he was ineligible, since he wasn't born in the country, however, Ata would be given the role regardless.

## Post-Commission

Following the disgraceful end to his Commission, Hakim leant heavily into his religious beliefs, becoming an Islamic Theologian, and continued to pester the Indomalayan government. Although by now, his reputation had given his ideas a harsh stigma in a nation that sought to distance itself from Hakim. He would find it increasingly difficult to push his ideas, and began to run out of money, with very few wishing to employ him, as well as him turning down interviews for documentary programmes he knew would disavow him. He died penniless on the 5th August 2101, aged 74

## Legacy

In the years after being removed from office, Indomalaya sought to distance itself from Hakim and the Nusantara National Party as much as possible, meaning little of his work survives in modern Indomalaya. Despite this, Hakim remains present in the public conscience, given he is frequently taught about in schools. In Indomalaya, being likened to Hakim is something left wing political groups tend to do to those further right of them, although this has been substituted for 'Tekinite' over the last few decades.