Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
Name : Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie or
Bj. Habibie.
Date and place of birth : 25-06-1936/Parepare, Sulawesi Selatan.
Father’s name : Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie.
Spouse : Hasri Ainun Habibie.
Children :
Ilham Akbar, Thareq Kemal.
Accomplishments : The third President of the
Republic of Indonesia.
Biography
B.J.
Habibie, in full Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
(born June 25, 1936, Parepare, Indonesia), Indonesian aircraft engineer and politician
who was president of Indonesia (1998–99) and a leader in the
country’s technological and economic development in the late 20th and early
21st centuries.
Brilliant in science and mathematics from childhood,
Habibie received his postsecondary education at the Bandung Institute of
Technology in Bandung, Indonesia, and furthered his studies at the Institute of
Technology of North Rhine–Westphalia in Aachen, West Germany. After graduating in 1960, he
remained in West Germany as an aeronautics researcher and production
supervisor.
Suharto took power as Indonesia’s second
president in 1966, and in 1974 he asked Habibie—whom he had known for 25
years—to return to the country to help build advanced industries. Suharto assured him that he could do
whatever was needed to accomplish that goal. Initially assigned to the state
oil company, Pertamina, Habibie became a government adviser and chief of a new aerospace
company in 1976. Two years later he became research minister and head of the Agency for
Technology Evaluation and Application. In these roles he oversaw a number of
ventures involving the production and transportation of heavy machinery, steel,
electronics and telecommunications equipment, and arms and ammunition.
Habibie believed his enterprises
ultimately would spawn high-tech ventures in the private sector and allow the
country to climb the technology ladder. In 1993 he unveiled the
first Indonesian-developed plane, which he helped design, and in the following
year he launched a plan to refurbish more than three dozen vessels bought from
the former East German navy at his initiative. The Finance Ministry balked at
the cost of the latter endeavour, while the armed forces thought that its turf
had been violated. Nevertheless, Habibie got more than $400 million for
refurbishing.
Meanwhile, in 1990 Habibie was
appointed head of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association, and during
the 1993 central-board elections of the country’s ruling party, Golkar, Habibie helped the children and
allies of President Suharto rise to top positions, easing out long-standing
military-backed power brokers. By the late 1990s Habibie was viewed as one of
several possible successors to the aging Suharto.
In March 1998 Suharto appointed
Habibie to the vice presidency, and two months later, in the wake of
large-scale violence in Jakarta, Suharto announced his resignation. Thrust
unexpectedly into the country’s top position, Habibie immediately began to
implement major reforms. He appointed a new cabinet; fired Suharto’s eldest
daughter as social affairs minister as well as his longtime friend as trade and
industry minister; named a committee to draft less-restrictive political laws;
allowed a free press; arranged for free parliamentary and presidential
elections the following year; and agreed to presidential term limits (two
five-year terms). He also granted amnesty to more than 100 political prisoners.
In 1999 Habibie announced that East Timor, a former Portuguese colony that
had been invaded by Indonesia in 1975, could choose between special autonomy
and independence; the territory chose independence. Indonesia held free general
elections (the first since 1955) in June, as promised. Later that year Habibie
ran for president, but he withdrew his candidacy shortly before the October
election, which was won by Abdurrahman Wahid. After Wahid took office, Habibie
essentially stepped out of politics, although in 2000 he established the
Habibie Center, a political research institute.
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