Biography Of Rudy Habibie

Rudy Habibie, in full name of Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie ( born June 25, 1936, Parepare,
Indonesia—died September 11, 2019, Jakarta), was Indonesian aircraft engineer and
politician who was president of indonesia ( 1998 – 1999 )and a leader in the country’s
technological and economic development in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

He is briliant in science and from his childhood. Habibie received his postsecondary
education at the bandung institute pf techonology In Bandung City and Continued his
studies at the institute of Technology of North Rhine – Westphalia In Aachen .

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.

In this moment, why did mr Habibie inspire me to be my hero?? Because of his smart,
genius in mathematics and science bu the point of that, he is romantic to his wife, although
his wife was died in 2010.