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BJ HABIBIE
Prof. DR (HC). Ing. Dr. Sc. Mult. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie otherwise known as BJ
Habibie (73 years) is a man Pare-Pare (South Sulawesi) born June 25, 1936. Habibie
became president of the 3rd Indonesia for 1.4 years and 2 months to be Vice President to-7.
Habibie is a "blaster" between the Javanese [mother] with the Napier / Pare-Pare
[father].Photo: BJ Habibie
The days of small, Habibie has shown intelligence and high spirits on science and
technology, particularly physics. For six months, he enrolled at the Mechanical
Engineering Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), and continued to Rhenisch Wesfalische
Tehnische Hochscule - Germany in 1955. With financed by his mother, RA Tuti Marini
Puspowardoyo, young Habibie spent 10 years to complete the study of S-1 to S-3 in
Aachen-Germany.
Unlike the average Indonesian students get scholarships abroad, college Habibie
(especially S-1 and S-2) funded directly by the mother who does catering business and
Indekost in London after her husband left to go (Habibie's father). Habibie mengeluti field of
aircraft design and construction at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. During the five
years of study in Germany Habibie finally earned his diploma Dilpom-Ingenenieur or
technique (note: diploma engineering in Germany is generally equated with a degree
Master/S2 in other countries) with summa cum laude.
Pak Habibie continued doctoral program after marrying his high school friend, Mrs.
Hasri Ainun Besari in 1962. Together with his wife living in Germany, Habibie had to work to
pay for tuition as well as household costs. Habibie explore the field of Aircraft Design and
Construction. In 1965, Habibie S-3 completed his studies and received his PhD Ingenieur
(Doctor of Engineering) with a GPA summa cum laude.
Career in the Industry
During his doctoral student, BJ Habibie had started working for his family and cost
studies. After graduation, BJ Habibie worked at Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm MBB or
Hamburg (1965-1969 as Head of Research and Development on Aircraft structure of the
analysis, and then served as Head of the Division of Methods and Technology in industrial
commercial and military aircraft in MBB (1969 - 1973). kebriliannya top performance and,
four years later, he was believed to be the Vice President and Director of Technology at
MBB period 1973-1978 and a Senior Penasihast technology to the Board of Directors MBB
(1978). was he the only Asians who occupied number two position in the German aircraft
company.
Before entering the age of 40 years, Habibie was very brilliant career, especially in
the design and constructionof aircraft. Habibie be a "jewel" in the country Germany and he
got "an honor", both materially and intellectually by the Germans. While working in MBB
Germany, Habibie contributed various research results and a number of theories for science
and technology in the field of Thermodynamics, Construction and Aerodynamics. Several
theoretical formulations known in the aircraft as "Habibie Factor", "Habibie
Theorem" and "Habibie Method".
Return to Indonesia
In 1968, BJ Habibie has invited a number of engineers to work on the German
aircraft industry. About 40 engineers working in Indonesia finally on the recommendation of

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Mr Habibie MBB. This is done to prepare skill and experience (SDM) Indonesian engineers
to someday be able to return to Indonesia and make products aerospace industry (and later
maritime and terrestrial). And when (the late) President Soeharto send Ibnu Sutowo to
persuade Germany to meet while Habibie returned to Indonesia, BJ Habibie immediately
willing andleaving office, position and high prestige in Germany. This is done by BJ Habibie
contribute to science and technology in the nation. In 1974 at the age of 38 years, BJ
Habibie return to their homeland. And he appointed a government adviser (directly under the
president) in the field of technology and high-tech aircraft until 1978. Despite of the years
1974-1978, Habibie was often home to go to Germany because they served as Vice
President and Director of Technology at MBB.
Habibie began to really focus after he fired a high position in the German MBB
Aircraft Company in 1978. And since then, from 1978 to 1997, he was appointed Minister of
State for Research and Technology (Research and Technology) as well as serving as
Chairman of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of
Technology (BPPT). Besides, Habibie was also appointed as Chairman of the National
Research Council and various other positions.
CN-235 aircraft owned by Air Force works IPTN Spain
As a Research and Technology , Habibie to implement its vision of bringing
Indonesia into the high-tech industry. He pushed a leap in the development strategy
of agrarian jump straight to the advanced industrial countries. His vision that instantly bring
Indonesia into the industry gets opposition from various parties, both inside and outside the
country who want a gradual development that started from the focus of investment in
agriculture. However, Habibie has strong confidence will his vision, and there is a "quote"
from the famous Habibie namely:
"I have some figures roomates compare the cost of one kilo of airplane Compared to one
kilo of rice.One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand U.S. dollars and one kilo of rice is seven
cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I do
not think we have enough.

The sentence above is Habibie weapon to argue with his political opponents. Habibie
would like to explain why the tech industry is very important. And he compares the prices
of products from high-tech industries (high tech) and agricultural products. He showed data
that the price of 1 kg aircraft is USD 30,000 and 1 kg of rice is 7 cents (USD 0.07). This
means that 1 kg aircraft is almost equivalent to 450 tonnes of rice. So by making 1 piece of
the plane with a mass of 10 tons, will be obtained rice 4.5 million tonnes of rice.
Pak Habibie mindset welcomed by Mr. Harto.Pres. Suharto was willing menggangarkan
extra funds from the state budget for the development of technology projects Habibie. And in
1989, Suharto gave "power" over the Habibie Habibie by giving confidence to lead strategic
industries such as Pindad, PAL, and PT IPTN.
Habibie became RI-1

Materially, Habibie is well established when he worked at the German company

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the Senior Vice President advicer in German high-tech companies. So Habibie plunged into
administration not because of the money or power per se, but rather the feeling of "thank
you" to the state and people of Indonesia and also to his parents. Similar attitudes were
shown by Kwik Kian Gie , ie, after a rich and prosperous at first, and Kwik retired from
business and new to politics. Not vice versa, which is mostly done by the politicians today
who become politicians in search of wealth / popularity so no wonder the mushrooming
corruption.
Three years after his return to Indonesia, Habibie (age 41 years) received the title of
Professor of Engineering from ITB. Over the past 20 years as the Minister, finally, on March
11, 1998, Habibie was elected as Vice President for-7 through the General Assembly. At the
time that the economic crisis (financial crisis) hit the Asian region, including Indonesia. The
rupiah plummeted from Rp 2,000 per U.S. dollar to Rp 12,000 per dollar's. Foreign debt
maturities so that swell due to the depreciation of the rupiah. This diperbarah by private
banks experiencing liquidity problems. Inflation soared above 50%, and unemployment
started to happen everywhere.
At the same time, public outrage peaked with the new order system is loaded
corruption, collusion, nepotism committed by Suharto cronies (officials, politicians, tycoons).
Besides corruption, authoritarian Suharto government classified, which captures vocal
activists and students.
Triggered shooting 4 students (Tragedies) on May 12, 1998, public outrage erupted,
especially among activists and students in the New Order government. The movement of
students, activists, and all the people at 12-14 May 1998 be a momentum change of the
regime leader Mr Hato. And on May 21, 1998, President Suharto was forced to retire from
the post of president which he held for about 32 years. During the 32 years that,
authoritarianism and corruption grew sumbur loaded. During the 32 years of that, many
truths are silenced. Starting from the turn of the Sukarno government (and exile Pres
Sukarno), G30S-PKI, Supersemar, until Soeharto alleged conspiracy with the U.S. and its
allies to dredge the natural resources by the people, the capitalists under the banner
korpotokrasi (including the CIA, Duni Bank, IMF and conglomerate ).
Suharto's resignation, then his Deputy that BJ Habibie was appointed the third
President under section 8 of the 1945 Constitution. However, his tenure as president lasted
only 512 days. Although very short, the leadership of President Habibie of Indonesia was
able to bring back from the brink of collapse due to the crisis. President Habibie successfully
led the country out of the ultra-crisis situation, to implement the transition from otorian
country into democracy. Successfully conducting the 1999 elections with multi parti (48
parties), successfully brought a change signifikn on stability, democratization and reform in
Indonesia.
Habibie was the first president of Indonesia who received many awards, especially in
the field of science and technology both domestically and abroad. His services in the field of
aircraft technology to deliver he received an Honorary Doctorate degree ( Doctor of Honoris
Causa ) from the University berbagaai world leading, among others, Cranfield Institute of
Technology and Chungbuk University.

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