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Mar 21, 2019 · Former Indonesian President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie records footage with this video camera as he sits with the audience to hear former US President Barack Obama delivers his keynote speech...
B.J. Habibie's time as Indonesian president may have been fleeting but the eccentric scientist turned bureaucrat, then politician, who died on Wednesday at the age of 83, left a substantial...
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Sep 12, 2019 · JAKARTA, Indonesia — B. J. Habibie, who as president of Indonesia ushered in an era of democracy that ended the brutal and corrupt rule of Suharto, whose 32-year dictatorship was one of the...
Sep 16, 2019 · Indonesia’s Joko Widodo hails BJ Habibie as ‘true statesman’. The so-called liberation of East Timor, although viewed positively by the West, was regarded domestically as his biggest failure ...
- The Accidental Father of Democracy
- Ending The Corruption ‘Franchise’
- Undoing Habibie’s Legacy
- Today’S Protesters Aren’T Intimidating The Elite
It is often said Habibie had little choice in all this. He began as an unpopular vice-president who found himself in the top office only because Soeharto was forced to step down. Habibie’s grasp on power was tenuous from the start. Ambitious and jealous rivals surrounded him, including in the military, and Indonesia was erupting into violence amid ...
Habibie became closely identified with the Reformasi movement, which was determined to end the elaborate corruption “franchise” Soeharto had developed. This tied the political, business and military elite together in a complex web of patronage, much of which is, sadly, still intact. Soeharto’s corruption franchise allowed Indonesia’s commercial wor...
And here lies yet another irony. Jokowi is the first president since Soeharto not to have been a political player under the New Order. He was first elected because he was seen as a cleanskin outsider, not comprised by elite politics. Yet it is he who has allowed the KPK – a key institution of democratic governance, created by the post-New Order ref...
How could all this have happened? The courageous young men and women who led the Reform movement from 1998 to 2002 and beyond are now in their forties and fifties. Most have now moved on from the NGOs and lobby groups that defined the liberal democratic agenda. Their children, netizens with little memory of the evils of the New Order, are now the v...
- Tim Lindsey
Sep 12, 2019 · Mr Habibie was tapped to lead Indonesia by General Suharto as the military dictator's 32-year hold on power crumbled in May 1998 during a student uprising and a devastating economic crash.
Sep 12, 2019 · Here are 5 examples of the legacy left by the innovative statesman: The Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) BJ Habibie was one of the founders of this non-ministry government agency that acts under the coordination of the Research and Higher Education Ministry.
