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ABURIZAL BAKRIE
IDENTIFICATION:
Aburizal Bakrie (born 15 November 1946) is a politician, and widely recognised as one of the
most successful pribumi (native Indonesian) businessmen in Indonesia. From 2004 until 2005
Bakrie served as Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economy. From 2005 until 2009 he
served as Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare. Since 2009, Bakrie serves as the Chairman
of the Golkar Party and since June 2012 as his party's official candidate for Indonesia's 2014
Presidential election. Bakrie attended the Bandung Institute of Technology where he obtained a
degree in electrical engineering in 1973.
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Career:
Business career
In 1972 Bakrie joined PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk known today as the Bakrie Group, the
conglomerate founded by his late father Achmad Bakrie, which prospered much like the rest of
the Indonesian economy during the Soeharto presidency. The Bakrie Group conducts business in
agriculture, real estate, trade, shipping, banking, insurance, media, manufacturing, construction,
and mining. Aburizal Bakrie, the eldest of four siblings was the chairman of the family enterprise
from 1999 to 2004. In 1998 the Asian economic crisis challenged Bakrie's control of the
conglomerate, from which he emerged victorious after a successful refinancing process in 2000.
Public offices
From 1991 to 1995 Bakrie served two consecutive terms as the President of the ASEAN
Business Forum and two consecutive terms from 1994 to 2004 as the President of the Indonesian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (aka Kadin). As a member of the Golkar party Bakrie was
running to become Golkar's candidate for the presidency in 2004.
Coordinating Minister for Economy
In 2004 Bakrie retired from PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk before being named Coordinating
Minister for Economy. The appointment by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was initially
viewed with some reservation. Shortly after being named to the cabinet of Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono, Bakrie set in motion a new government policy calling for a 3% reduction of
Indonesians living in poverty, by reducing fuel subsidies in exchange for financial support to
approximately 6 million people. Bakrie argued the government's need to gradually increase fuel

prices to keep fuel subsidies from busting its budget, while bringing the cost of fuel closer to
international levels. By October 2005 and after two price hikes, the cost of fuel increased by
126%. Standard & Poor's rated the hike as an encouraging move to relieve immediate pressure
on the country's fiscal position and external balance.
In a move to stem Indonesia's declining output of crude oil, Bakrie weighed in to end a standoff
between ExxonMobil Corporation and PT Pertamina. The companies had been at odds for many
years, following their dispute over operational and profit sharing issues in the Cepu Block oil
fields project, the OPEC member's biggest oil discovery on Java in decades. The previous year
Bakrie pledged that the new government wanted to resolve the Cepu and other disputes involving
international companies, in a show of its commitment to improving Indonesia's investment
climate.
Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare
After a reshuffling of the cabinet in 2005, Bakrie was appointed Coordinating Minister for
People's Welfare. In May 2008 Bakrie announced the handout of $1.52 billion to nearly 19
million low income households as part of a direct cash relief program, aimed to cushion the blow
of the fuel increase.
Chairman of Golkar party
In 2009 Bakrie was elected as the Chairman of Golkar party at Golkar Party Congress in
Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia after defeating Surya Paloh, Yuddy Chrisnandi and Hutomo Mandala
Putra. In May 2010, he successfully formed and was elected the leader of a majority
parliamentary coalition with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's party.
Lumpur Lapindo
Bakrie's name has been mentioned in reference with the Sidoarjo mud flow that erupted on 29
May 2006 in Sidoarjo, a regency of Eastern Java, causing significant devastation to the
environment and loss of life. Scientists are divided over the cause that triggered the mud flow.
One side is claiming it was a natural occurrence caused by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake,
occurring two days earlier near Yogyakarta, aka the May 2006 Java earthquake, while the other
side is suggesting only the drilling practices of the PT Lapindo Brantas, a company in which
Bakrie's family was a controlling shareholder, triggered the mudflow. The media coverage as a
result remains mixed.
Although environmental groups urged Indonesia's government to revoke the drilling license of
PT Lapindo Brantas for environmental mismanagement, a three-year police investigation into the
incident ended with the case being dropped. According to the Jakarta Globe, Effendi Simbolon, a
legislator from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle PDI-P and deputy chairman of
House of Representatives Commission VII, which oversees mines and energy affairs, said that
"the criticism of Bakrie, whose family controls the company that is widely blamed for the
disaster, was unwarranted, politicized and based largely on jealousy."

For nearly seven years the mudflow has been wreaking havoc in the livelihoods of Porong
residents in particular and on the Sidoarjo economy as a whole. The mudflow has also buried
more than 600 hectares of land, displacing 39,700 people and submerging three subdistricts, 12
villages, 11,241 buildings and 362 hectares of rice fields.
Presidential elections 2014
In the fall of 2010 media coverage started to indicate that Bakrie was seeking to become the
Golkar Party's presidential candidate in Indonesia's 2014 Presidential election. Since then, Bakrie
repeatedly expressed his desire to be nominated as Golkar's presidential candidate. Media reports
also suggested the Golkar Party had already commenced its search for a running mate to team up
with Bakrie, introducing names like Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwana X the current Governor of
Yogyakarta, Pramono Anung the Secretary General of the Indonesian Democratic Party and
Deputy House Speaker, Dahlan Iskan the State Enterprises Minister, as well as Edhie Baskoro
Yudhoyono the youngest son of Indonesia's current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Bakrie's early nomination was met with significant criticism as some party members favoured a
caucus to first determine the mechanisms for naming the party's candidate. The head of the
Golkar Party advisory board, Akbar Tanjung, criticised the decision earlier in October 2011,
when the party congress chose Bakrie as the preferred candidate without allowing other people to
be nominated. Tanjung called the process "undemocratic and said it denied other members the
right to pursue the nomination". This criticism was echoed by "other members, including some at
the regional level".Bakrie responded to the criticism by saying that they were "political attacks"
and was described by The Jakarta Post as "shrugging off" the criticism. Others however pointed
out the need to settle on their presidential candidate well ahead of the 2014 election, citing
Indonesia's sheer geographic footprint with sprawling provinces and a population expected to
reach 248 million this year.
On 29 June 2012 at Golkar's National Leadership meeting in Bogor, Bakrie was declared the
Golkar Party's 2014 Presidential candidate. In his acceptance speech Bakrie said "Pleading for
guidance from God almighty, the faith to build a more developed Indonesia, a strong will and
support from all of you, with humility I officially and openly accept this nomination." In an
attempt to end speculation about a possible running mate for Bakrie Golkar's Deputy chairman
Agung Laksono ruled out the selection of a vice-presidential candidate until 2013.
Recent opinion polls show Bakrie trailing behind other presidential hopefuls. including former
general Prabowo Subianto (Chief Patron of the Great Indonesia Movement Party) and former
President Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Indonesia's first President Sukarno.