| Cerdas Barus | |
| Country: | Indonesia |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia |
| Grandmaster (2003) | |
| Peakrating: | 2503 (January 2003) |
| Fideid: | 7100094 |
Cerdas Barus (born 1 January 1961 in Karo, North Sumatra) is an Indonesian deaf chess grandmaster (2004).
He has won the Indonesian Chess Championship three times. In 2002, he came second at Surabaya.[1] In 2011 he won the Telin Chess International Tournament in Jakarta.[2] In December 2015 he participated at the Penang Open tournament in Malaysia with 119 players; he became shared 11th with 6 points out of 9 rounds.[3]
He played for Indonesia in the Chess Olympiads of 1984, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996, 2000 and 2002 (individual gold medal at third board).[4]