BIOGRAPHY

OF BJ HABIBIE
By Group 4:
Alfian Amanda W (X MIPA 9 / 01)

Diodorus Charis A (X MIPA 9 / 10)

Rachel Gracia Widianto (X MIPA 9 / 25)

Raffanda Fergita Puteri (X MIPA 9 / 26)

Siska Via Delarosa A(X MIPA 9 / 31 )

Syallom Aprinta Cahya P(X MIPA 9 / 32 )

Bacharuddin
Jusuf
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.

Habibie’s father passed away due to heart attack when he was in elementary school. After
that, his mother sold their vehicle and house and then moved to Bandung. As a single parent,
Habibie’s mother worked hard to afford her life with her children.
 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 an institute of technology in Germany.
 Habibie studied hard to be success since he
remembered how hard his mother worked for his life.
Even, Habibie spent his time in holiday to earn extra
money for buying books. When holiday ended, he did not
do anything except studying. In 1960, he graduated with
great score, almost perfect. He got 9.5 With his education
background, he applied at an industry company of train,
named Firma Talbot.
 After that, he continued his doctoral degree at Aachen
Institute. 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)
 After graduating with a doctoral degree from the Aachen
Institute in 1965, Habibie joined the aircraft manufacturing firm
Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Bluhm, rising to the rank of vice-
president. As a research scientist and aeronautical engineer, he
helped design several planes, including the DO-31, an
innovative vertical takeoff and landing craft. He specialized in
solutions for aircraft cracking, gaining the nickname "Mr.
Crack" as one of the first scientists to calculate the dynamics of
random crack propagation. He also became involved in
international aircraft marketing activities and NATO's defense
and economic development.
 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 in 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.
 Hasri Ainun passed away on May 22, 2010 in Ludwig
Maximilians Universitat Hospital, Klinikum, Muenchen, Germany.
She suffered a cancer for a long time however she never told her
husband, Habibie. It was known that she had cancer when she
collapsed and had to be hospitalized. For Habibie, Ainun is
everything. She is a great partner of life who had accompanied him
to go through good and bad times in life. In 2012, the life of
Habibie and how he met Ainun were filmed and got high rates for
the inspirational story.
Thank You