H. Umar Billah bin Muhammad Yahya, born Johanes Hubertus Eijkenboom, or more popularly known as Johny Indo (November 6, 1948 – January 26, 2020), was an Indonesian actor.
Johny Indo was born with the name Johanes Hubertus Eijkenboom to a Dutch father and an Indonesian mother. His father was Mathias Eijkenboom (later Muhammad Yahya), a Dutch soldier who came to Indonesia during the first Dutch Military Aggression, July–August 1947.[1]
Johny Indo was originally known as a gold shop robber in Jakarta and its surroundings in the 1970s era which was carried out during the day with his Pachinko group (City China Troops).[2] Johny Indo's most famous action was to rob a gold shop in Cikini, Central Jakarta, in 1979.
Johny Indo was arrested in Sukabumi after the Pachinko group was first arrested.[2] Johny Indo was then sentenced to 14 years in prison and thrown into the Nusakambangan prison. However, after only three years of serving his sentence, he and a gang of 34 people tried to escape from Nusakambangan, but he was caught after surviving 12 days.[3]
After being free, he had played in a number of films, one of which was the story of himself in the film Johny Indo in 1987.[4] In his old age, he still travels around preaching Islam and has the alias Umar Billah.[4]
He died on January 26, 2020, after experiencing shortness of breath.[5]
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