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Lieutenant General (Ret.) Haji Azwar Anas gelar Datuk Rajo Suleman (born 2 August 1931), more colloquially referred to as Pak Anas, is a former Indonesian politician, bureaucrat, and military officer. A member of the Golkar political machine, he served in a number of positions during the President Suharto's New Order regime. During his career in government, he served as the Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, Minister of Transportation, and Governor of the province of West Sumatra. Born in Padang, in what was then the West Sumatra Residency, he graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology in 1959, and attended Syracuse University that same year.

He then joined the military, and underwent military training at the Reserve Officers School in Bogor. After graduating and was appointed by President Sukarno as a first lieutenant. During his time in the military, he became the director of Semen Padang. In 1977, he was elected as the Governor of West Sumatra, following the end of Harun Zain's term. He served as governor for two terms, from 1977 until 1987. As governor, he was known for his religiosity and was popular among many West Sumatrans. After leaving the office of governor, he continued to serve in government. In 1988, he appointed Minister of Transportation and later he was appointed the General Chair of the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) in 1991. Two years later, Azwar was appointed Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, before eventually leaving government in 1998.

Youth and family
Azwar Anas was born on 2 August 1931, in Mata Air, Padang, in what was then the West Sumatra Residency, Dutch East Indies. Born to a Minangkabau family, he was related to the noble Pagaruyung family – from his patrilineal line – which had ruled the now defunct Pagaruyung Kingdom. His father, Anas Malik Sutan Masabumi, worked as the head of a train repair shop at Simpang Haru, while his mother came from a family in Koto Sani, Solok.

Growing up, he was raised in a Muslim family, and spent most of his childhood with his family in Mato Aie in a house built in the waist of a hill on the edge of Jalan Raya Padang–Teluk Bayur. Unlike most of the children of Dutch government employees, he and his brother and sister were not enrolled in Dutch schools. Instead, they were enrolled in the Hollandsch-Inlandsche School Adabiyah (HIS), a religious school founded by Islamic cleric Abdullah Ahmad in 1909.

During the Japanese occupation, he took several odd jobs to alleviate the family's finances. He began cutting wood to sell at the "Java Market" in Padang, now known as the "Pasar Raya" market. He also sold fish and fried bananas there. After finishing his education in HIS Adabiyah, he pursued further education, and entered the "Chu Gakko" school, a Japanese school which was the equivalent to junior high school.