B.J.

Habibie
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie is the third President of Indonesia. He was born on June 25, 1936
in Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi. He is the fourth of eight children in his family. His parents are
Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie and RA. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo. He spent his childhood in Pare-
Pare. Since he was a kid, he has shown his integrity and persistent behaviour. At school,
Habibie whose hobbies are riding horse and reading book is famous for his intelligence.

In 1954, after Habibie graduated from senior high school in Bandung, he continued his study
to Bandung Institute of Technology. He did not finish his study at ITB because at the same
time he got a scholarship from The Ministry of education and Culture of Indonesia to study in
Germany. He remembered that Bung Karno had ever said about the importance of plane
development for Indonesia, and then he decided to take aerospace engineering with aeroplane
construction specialty at Rhein Westfalen Aachen Technische Hochschule (RWTH), an
institute of technology in Germany.

After that, he continued his doctoral degree at Technische Hochschule Die Facultaet Fuer
Maschinenwesen Aachean. In 1962, he got married with Hasri Ainun. She was a doctor and
she followed his husband to Germany. Habibie and Ainun has two sons. They are Ilham
Akbar dan Thareq Kemal. At that time, life got harder. He had to go to work in the early
morning because he walked to the office to save more money. He went home in the evening
and studied. He finished his doctoral degree in 1965 with perfect score (10).

In his life, Habibie has got many achievements and awards from Indonesia and other
International institution. Before he fulfilled a call from President Soeharto and went back to
Indonesia, he had worked at a leading aeroplane industry, MBB Gmbh, Germany. In
Indonesia, Habibie had been the minister of Research and Technology for 20 years and led 10
governmental company of strategic industry. He was elected by society representative
assembly as the Vice President of Indonesia. When the crisis happened in 1998 and President
Soeharto was insisted to step down from his position, Habibie was assigned to replace
President Soeharto to be the third President of Indonesia.
Mr. BJ Habibie has the honor of being a citizen in Germany, during his life he received many
awards and achievements for Indonesia On September 11, 2019 Mr. BJ Habibie breathed his
last the love story of BJ Habibie and Ainun is also very famous and is an eternal love story so
that in 2012 a film was made.