Crazy's Dreamer

Title of book : BJH Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie His Lufe and Career
Author : A. Makmur Makka
Edition : MArch, 1999




Summary :


Summary :
He is better then known as B.J. Habibie and his name child is Rudy, was born on June 25, 1936, in Pare-pare, South Sulawesi. The fourth child in a family of eight of Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie and R.A. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo, stayed only for one year at ITB, because in1955 he was sent by his mother to study at Rheinsich Westfalische technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.
After He studied seriously for five years, B.J. Habibie earned his Diplom-Ingenieur with Cum Laude (his average grade was 9.5) at the Faculity of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Aircraft Design and Construction. Young B.J. Habibie a very devout Moslem who always fasts every Monday and Thrusday, in the end brilliantly earned his Doctor-Ingenieur at the Faculity of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Aircraft Design and Construction with Summa Cum Laude (his average grade was 10.0), in 1965.

B. J. Habibie started his career in Germany by becoming the Head of Research and Development of Structure Analysis in the Hamburger Flugzeugbau Gmbh, Hamburg, Germany (1965-1969): Head of Method and Technology division of Commercial and Military Transport Airscraft MBB Gmbh, Hamburg and Munchen (1969-1973): Vice President and Technology Director MBB Gmbh, Hamburg and Munchen (1973-1978) : and Technology Senior Advisor to the MBB Board of directore (1978). In 1977 he delivered is Professorship oration in Aircraft Construction at the Bandung Institute of Technology.

B. J. Habibie married with dr. Hasri Ainun Besari, the fourth daughter in a family of 8 of Haj Mohammad Besari, on May 12, 1962. They are blessed with two sons, namely : Ilham Akbar and thareq Kemal, who were born and raised in Germany. To the call of service to built the nation, B. J. Habibibie returned home in 1974, when President Soeharto ask him to come back.

Strated his career at home as an Advisor to the Indonesian Government in Adviced Technology and Aircraft Technology, who is directly responsible to the President of the Republic Indonesia (1974-1978). In 1978, he was appointed Minister of State for Research and Technology, concurrently Head of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT). He maintained this job for 5 term-of-office during the Development Cabinet until 1998.

Before the Indonesian people held the General Election in 1997, Habibie informed his family and close associates, that he was planning to retire after his term-of-office in the Sixth Development Cabinet expires. However, Man proposed, God Disposed. Close to the holding of the 1998 General Session of MPR-RI, the name of B. J. Habibie emerged, together with several other names, as Vice President candidates, but after the criteria for Vice President was set, i.e. a person able to preserve, nation’s unity and cohesion and is knowledgeable about science and technology, the name B. J. Habibie became the sole candidate. On March 11, 1998. MPR-RI elected and installed Prof. Dr..-Ing B. J. Habibie as the seventh Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.

In the mean time, the economic crisis tahat hit the Asian region engulfed Indonesia, and it led to a political crisis as well as a crisis of confidence. The crisis became more serious and the people were demanding a reform so that in the end, on May 21,1998. president Soeharto announced his resignation. In conformity with article 8 of the 1945 Constitution, on the same day, at 9.00 a.m. West Indonesian Time, Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. J. Habibie took the oath of office as Presidebt before the chairman and member of the Supreme court.

Thus, a glimpse of B. J. Habibie, who has 2 grandchildren, and who , in the beginning was planning for his retirement, finally followed to what history dictates to become the seventh Vice President and the third President of the republic of Indonesia;




My favorite part of this book,
(karena buku ini pake bahasa inggris, jadi perkataan Pak Habibie yang sebenarnya pake bahasa Indonesia jadi keikut bahasa inggris, akhirnya aku co-past aja, takut salah nerjemahinnya, xixixi)

• He is an Intelligent person. Even a genius and out of the 130 million inhabitants, there is only one B. J. Habibie. These are no mere idle words. (comment of Military Technology Magazine)
• Rudy (nickname of BJ. Habibie was child) was very clever in reciting Qur’an, and he managed to “khattam” several times. He could also be quite stubborn. When he quarreled with his brothers or sisters, and thought he was right, he would protest when he was put in wrong. But when he knew that he was wrong. He would accept being scoled and punished. So we knew that he whennhe ccepted his punishment, he really had been in the wrong. (Mrs. Subono Mantofani, A siste’s Prayers, SABJIH 1986)
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