BJ Habibie

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BJ Habibie

Indonesian Famous People - Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (born in Parepare, South Sulawesi, June 25, 1936) was the third President of the Republic of Indonesia. He succeeded Suharto, who resigned as president on May 21, 1998. His position was replaced by Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), who was elected as president on October 20, 1999 by the Assembly election results in 1999. With the position for two months and seven days as vice president, and one year and five months as president, Habibie is the Vice President and also President of Indonesia with the shortest tenure. 

Family and education

Habibie is the fourth child of eight children, spouse Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie and RA Tuti Marini Puspowardojo. Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie was born on August 17, 1908 at Gorontalo and RA Tuti Puspowardojo Marini was born in Yogyakarta, 10 November 1911. Mother R.A. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo is the son of an ophthalmologist in Yogya, and his father, who named Puspowardjojo served as superintendent of schools. B.J. Habibie was one child of seven brothers. 

B.J. Habibie is married to Hasri Ainun Besari on May 12, 1962, and was blessed with two sons, namely Ilham Akbar and Thareq Kemal. 

He studied mechanical engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology in 1954. In 1955-1965 he continued his study of aviation engineering, aircraft construction specialist, at RWTH Aachen, West Germany, received his Diplom in 1960 and ingineur ingineur doctorate in 1965 with summa cum laude. 
Jobs and careers
Habibie had worked at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, an aviation company based in Hamburg, Germany, to reach a career peak as a vice president of technology. In 1973, he returned to Indonesia at the request of former president Suharto.
He later served as Minister of State for Research and Technology since 1978 until March 1998. Prior to assuming the President (21 May 1998 - October 20, 1999), BJ Habibie was the Vice President (14 March 1998-21 May 1998) in the Seventh Development Cabinet under President Suharto.
He was appointed general chairman of ICMI (Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association), in his tenure as minister.

Early Presidency
Habibie inherited a chaotic situation after Suharto's resignation due to mismanagement in the new order, causing widespread riots and disintegerasi almost the entire territory of Indonesia. Immediately after obtaining the power of President Habibie immediately form a cabinet. One of the main tasks was to re-gain the support from the International Monetary Fund and the community of donor countries for economic recovery program. He also frees political prisoners and reduce controls on freedom of opinion and the activities of the organization.
In the era of the short reign he succeeded in providing a solid foundation to Indonesia, the era was born Antitrust Act or Healthy Competition Act, changes in the political party law and the most important is the regional autonomy law. Through the implementation of regional autonomy law is inherited disintergrasi turmoil since the New Order era, successfully suppressed and eventually settled in the era of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in the absence of regional autonomy law can be sure Indonesia will experience the same fate as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
In the economic field, he managed to cut the value of the rupiah against the dollar is still ranging between Rp 10,000 - Rp 15,000. But at the end of his reign, especially after the Assembly rejected his liability, the rupiah soared up to the level of Rp 6500 per U.S. dollar value will never be achieved again in the era of the next government. In addition, he also started applying the independence of Bank Indonesia to be more focus on taking care of the economy.
One of the mistakes that are considered the largest opposition party after serving as President, BJ Habibie to allow the holding of a referendum province of East Timor (now Timor Leste), he proposed something quite shocking the public at the time, which entered the poll for the citizens of East Timor to choose independence or remain part of Indonesia. During his presidency, East Timor separated from the Unitary Republic of Indonesia and became a separate, sovereign state on August 30, 1999. Separation of East Timor on one side was regretted by most of Indonesian citizens, but on the other hand to clean the name of Indonesia, which is often tainted by allegations of human rights violations in East Timor.
These cases encourage the opposition parties who are dissatisfied with the more vigorous background Habibie dropped Habibie. This effort finally succeeded conducted at the General Assembly in 1999, he decided not to run again after the report was rejected by the Assembly to account.
Views on the Habibie government in the early era of reform tends to be negative, but in line with the development of a positive rate of time much of the Habibie government. False positive outlook by L. dikemukan Misbah Hidayat In his book Administrative Reform: Comparative Study of Three Government President.

    Vision, mission and leadership of President Habibie in carrying out the reform agenda can not be released from his life experiences. Every decision made is based on factors that can be measured. So no wonder every policy taken sometimes make people be surprised and do not understand. Even the most apolitical among regard Habibie and unfeeling. Habibie's leadership pattern like that is understandable considering the background of his education as a doctorate in aircraft construction. In connection with the spirit of democratization, Habibie has made changes by building a transparent government and dialogic. Democratic principles are also applied in the economic policies that accompanied the law enforcement and is intended for people's welfare. In managing the activities of daily necessity cabinet, Habibie made a big change. He improved coordination and delete egosentisme sekotral antarmenteri. In addition a number of creative coloring Habibie's leadership style in handling the nation. [4] To solve economic problems, for example, he raised the entrepreneur becomes a special envoy. And employers themselves who bear the costs. The task is very important, because one of the weaknesses of the government is less to explain the real situation in Indonesia on the international community. Meanwhile, the press, especially the foreign press, impressed only exposing the negative news about Indonesia that are not balanced in the news.
Post-Presidency
After he got down from his position as president, he lived in Germany more than in Indonesia. But when the era of the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, he re-active as an advisor to the president to initiate the process of democratization in Indonesia through an organization she founded Habibie Center.
Compared with before the era of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Habibie get a good name among the younger generation of post-reform. This is because he probably was the only president in history to hold the country experiencing severe disintergrasi, bureaucracy and military mental dilapidated low but managed to save the country and provide a solid new foundation for his successor. Indeed during Habibie's East Timor Indonesia to take off, but he successfully defended territory of the former Dutch East Indies remained united in the Republic of Indonesia. 
PublicationsWhen Habibie was sworn in as president on May 21, 1998. 
Works Habibie

    * Proceedings of the International Symposium on Aeronautical Science and Technology of Indonesia / B. J. Habibie; B. Laschka [Editors]. Indonesian Institute of Aeronautical and Astronautical; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft-und Raumfahrt 1986
    * Eine zum Berechnungsmethode Voraussagen Fortschritts des beliebigen von Unter Rissen Belastungen Vergleiche und mit entsprechenden Versuchsergebnissen, Presentation at the Symposium in Baden-Baden DGLR ,11-October 13, 1971
    * Beitrag zur der orthotropen Temperaturbeanspruchung Kragscheibe, Dissertation at the RWTH Aachen, 1965
    * Sophisticated technologies: taking root in developing countries, International Journal of Technology Management: IJTM. - Geneva-Aeroport: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 1990
    * Einführung in die Finite Elementen Methode, Teil 1, Hamburger Flugzeugbau GmbH, 1968
    * Entwicklung eines Verfahrens zur Bestimmung des Rißfortschritts in Schalenstrukturen, Hamburger Flugzeugbau GmbH, Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, 1970
    * Entwicklung eines zur Bestimmung der Rißfortschrittsgeschwindigkeit Berechnungsverfahrens an A1-Legierungen Schalenstrukturen und aus Titanium, Hamburger Flugzeugbau GmbH, Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, 1969
    * The Defining Moments - Indonesian Long Road to Democracy, 2006 (memoir of events in 1998)
Regarding Habibie

    * Hosen, Nadirsyah, Indonesian political laws in Habibie Era: Between the political struggle and law reform, Nordic journal of international law, ISSN 0029-151x, Bd. 72 (2003), 4, pp. 483-518
    * Rice, Robert Charles, the Indonesian approaches to technological policy During the Soeharto era: Habibie, Sumitro and Others, the Indonesian economic development (1990), pp. 53-66
    * Makka, Makmur.A, The True Life of Habibie Story Behind the Success, CITED THE FAITH, ISBN 978-979-3371-83-2, 2008
References

   1.  Makka, Makmur.A, The True Life of Habibie Story Behind the Success, LITERATURE OF FAITH, 2008
   2.  Http://kepustakaan-presiden.pnri.go.id/biography/index.asp?presiden=habibie
   3.  Administrative Reform: Comparative Study of Three Government President
   4.  Suryo B. Sulistyo.1999. "Economic policies relying on market forces," in Badaruddin et.al. BJ leadership. Habibie. Vision, Mission, and strategy, Jakarta: Yayasan Bina Professional and Entrepreneurial
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