Inspiring People

Inspiring People 

Bacharrudin Yusuf Habibie 

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Bacharrudin Yusuf Habibie or familiarly called B.J Habibie or Eyang. Eyang is my idol.  He was born on Prepare  Sulawesi Selatan, June 25th 1936. His father, Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie was an agriculturist from Gorontalo and her mother R. A. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo was a Javanese noblewoman from Yogyakarta.

B.J. Habibie was married to Masri Ainun Habibie on May 12, 1962, and had two sons, namely Ilam Akbar Habibie and Thareq Kemal Habibie. But, Ainun was passed first because of ovarian cancer.

He had studied at SMPN 5 Bandung (my lovely junior high school) and SMAK Dago. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Indonesia, Bandung (Now the Bandung Institute of Technology) in 1954. In 1955-1965 he went on to study aeronautical engineering, aircraft construction specialties, at the RWTH Aachen, West Germany, received a Diplom Ingenieur degree in 1960 and doctorate Ingenieur in 1965 with summa cum laude.

  

Habibie had work at Messerschmitt Bölkow-Blohm, an airline which centered in Hamburg, Germany, to reach the summit career as A representative of the President of Technology.  In 1973, he back to Indonesia according to request of the former President Soeharto.

His presidency is seen as a transition to the post-Suharto era. Upon becoming president, he liberalised Indonesia's press and political party laws, and held an early democratic election in 1999, which resulted in the end of his presidency. His presidency was the third, and the shortest, after independence. This time his name immortalized as the name of one of the universities in Gorontalo, replacing the name of Gorontalo State University.

In his term of office, he give freedom to the people's aspirations. So, there was 48 new political parties. Freeing political prisoners (detainees) as Sri Bintang Pamungkas (former member of Parliament who went to prison because criticizing President Soeharto) and Muchtar Pakpahan (labor leader who was sentenced for allegedly fueling the unrest in Medan in 1994). Forming three undang-undang demokrasi and twelve ketetapan MPR. Also have decresed the exchange rate of Rupiah at 6,500 for 1 US dollar. And according to people, his biggest mistake was to allow the holding of a referendum province of East Timor (now Timor Leste).

His life story was filmed in Habibie and Ainun and behind 98.