B.J HABIBIE

Hello everyone ☺, back to my blog. So, today I am going to make a biography of a hero in Indonesia, his name is B.J Habibie

ORIENTATION

Habibie was born in the city of Parepare, South Sulawesi on June 25, 1936. His father, Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie, was an agricultural expert from Gorontalo, while his mother, R. A. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo, came from Yogyakarta. On May 12, 1962, he married Hasri Ainun Besari, who was his childhood friend. They were then blessed with two children, namely Ilham Akbar Habibie and Thareq Kemal Habibie.

Complication

While in college, Habibie majored in Mechanical 
Engineering at the University of Indonesia Bandung or what is now better known as the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). After graduating, he began studying aviation at Delft University in the Netherlands, but due to political problems between Indonesia and the Netherlands, he then continued his studies at RWTH Aachen, Germany, specializing in aircraft construction. Habibie then completed his education in Germany in 1960 and received a Diplom-Ingenieur degree.

After graduating from Aachen, he continued to live there as research assistant to Hans Ebner. He later married and took his wife to Germany. They then settled in the city of Oberforstbach and Habibie worked as an advisor to an automotive company. In 1965, he managed to get a Doctorate degree der Ingenieurwissenschafter and continued his research on Thermoelasticity with Hans Ebner.

The results of his thesis then also attracted a number of large companies, such as Boeing and Airbus. He then worked with Messerchmitt-Bolkow-Blohm, an airline company in the city of Hamburg, Germany until he was promoted to the position of vice president of the company. He then developed the theory of thermodynamics, construction and aerodynamics, which were later known as the Habibie Factor, Habibie Theorem and Habibie Method respectively.
In 1974, the then president of Indonesia, Suharto recruited Habibie to lead industrial development in Indonesia. Habibie was then given the answer as CEO of the Nusantara Aircraft Industry (IPTN). In 1978, Habibie was also appointed as Minister of Research and Technology of Indonesia.

BJ Habibie also played a role in the development of domestic industry. Because he was part of the Suharto government, Habibie was also part of the Golkar (Golkar) political party. In 1998, he became vice president of Suharto. However, his position was short-lived, because in the same year he was also appointed president.

On May 21, 1998, Habibie was officially sworn in as the third president of the Republic of Indonesia. He replaced the previous president, Suharto, who resigned due to pressure from students and the public during the New Order era. The condition of the country at that time was indeed chaotic and exacerbated by the economic crisis.

BJ Habibie's term of office finally ended on October 20, 1999. This meant that he became president of Indonesia with the shortest term of office, which was 1 year and 5 months. Even so, he was able to make policies and make important contributions to the country. Among them are making regulations on freedom of aspiration for the community and being able to strengthen the rupiah exchange rate against the US dollar.

REORIENTATION
After the death of his wife, BJ Habibie wrote a book entitled Habibie-Ainun which tells the relationship between the two until Ainun's death. The biographical book of BJ Habibie was later adapted into a film by director Faozan Rizal, starring Reza Rahardian and Bunga Citra Lestari. The Habibie-Ainun film is so popular that it is one of the highest-grossing Indonesian films of all time and is watched by millions of viewers in cinemas throughout Indonesia