Biography of BJ Habibie

The third president of the Republic of Indonesia. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, known as B. J. Habibie, was born in Pare-Pare in southern Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia, June 25^th 1936. The young Habibie has been described as a serious student and strongly religious. Raised in an orthodox Muslim family, he met the future president of Indonesia, Suharto (b. 1921), when the latter was posted to Sulawesi as an army officer. During this period, when Habibie was still a young child, his father passed away. Suharto is believed to have taken a personal interest in Habibie, and the two formed a bond that later led to Habibie's rise in Suharto's government when the latter became the president of the Republic of Indonesia.

B. J. Habibie did his high school diploma course in Java, at the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology, and got his diploma in 1954. In 1960, he graduated with an engineering degree from the Aachen Institute of Technology in Germany. He received his doctorate in engineering in 1965 from the same institution, graduating summa cum laude.

After completing his education, Habibie worked as a specialized scientist at the Hamburger Flugzügbauin Germany, later known as the Messerchmitt-Bölkow-Blohm company (which had absorbed the company founded by Willy Messerschmitt [1898–1978], the designer of the Messerschmitt fighter aircraft that played so prominent a role in Hitler's Luftwaffe during World War II). Between 1969 and 1973, he headed the methods andtechnology division for commercial airplanes and military transport at this firm. He was called back to Indonesia in 1974 to develop strategies for achieving Indonesia's technological goals. The then president Suharto backed Habibie's strategy to enable Indonesia to compete technologically with the rest of the world by the end of the twentieth century.

President B. J. Habibie on 5 January 1999 shortly after withdrawing from the election for president. (AFP/CORBIS)

Habibie headed several high-cost ventures supported by the Indonesian state, including the aircraft industry. In 1982, he became a member of the Indonesian parliament as a representative of the ruling party, Golkar. Between 1978 and 1998, he was the state minister of research andtechnology . In 1990, he became the chairman of the Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals (ICMI); some observers have viewed this as a political role that Suharto gave Habibie to counterbalance the power of the Indonesian armed forces. ICMI also served as an alternative power base to the army.

Habibie was made the seventh vice president of the Republic of Indonesia in March 1998, when the authoritarian president Suharto was fighting for his political survival in the aftermath of the economic crisis in Southeast Asia. In May 1998, Suharto decided to step down after thirty-two years in power. Habibie then assumed the post of president.

Habibie has been described as highly energetic, mercurial in temperament, and excitable, as well as dismissive of criticism. His tenure as president, given the economic problems facingIndonesia , was troubled. In view of the voters' negative reaction to the ruling Golkar Party, which Habibie represented and which was blamed for the country's economic woes, it is not surprising that he lost his election bid in 1999. Habibie now lives in Germany.

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Penerimaan Devisa dari Kujungan Wisatawan 2001-2008

Data Statistik Penerimaan Devisa dari Kunjungan Wisatawan Di Indonesia

Tahun Penerimaan devisa (juta USD)
2001 5.396,26
2002 4.305,56
2003 4.037,02
2004 4.797,88
2005 4.521,89
2006 4.447,98
2007 5.345,98
2008 7.377,39


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SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan berdiri sejak tanggal 1 Juli 1982 dengan Surat Keputusan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia Nomor : 0298/O/ 1982 tanggal 9 Oktober 1982 secara resmi dianggap sebagai penunggalan dari SMA Negeri Kuningan.
Langkah awal berdirinya SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan adalah merupakan gagasan dan usulan Kepala SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan pada waktu itu, yaitu Drs. Subandhi yang memandang perlu menambah SMA Negeri di Ibu Kota Kabupaten Kuningan mengingat dengan hanya satu SMA Negeri sudah tidak bisa memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat Kabupaten Kuningan saat itu untuk menyekolahkan anaknya di SMA.
Akhirnya atas usulan Kepala SMA Negeri Kuningan melalui Kanwil Depdikbud Propinsi Jawa Barat, terbitlah Surat Keputusan Mendikbud tersebut di atas yang secara administratif menyebutkan penunggalan SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan dari Fillial SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan. Padahal secara nyata, sebelumnya tidak ada SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan Fillial SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan. Maka berdasarkan SK Mendikbud Nomor : 0298 tersebut mulai tahun pelajaran 1982/1983 dikembangkan yang tadinya SMA Negeri Kuningan yang berlokasi di dua tempat menjadi dua SMA yaitu SMA Negeri 1 Kuningan yang berlokasi di Jalan Siliwangi no. 55 Kuningan, dan SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan yang berlokasi di Jalan Aruji Kartawinata no. 16 Kuningan dan secara adil segalanya dibagi dua mulai dari Siswa, Guru, Pegawai Tata Usaha dsb.
Dengan demikian berdasarkan SK Mendikbud nomor : 0298/O/1982 tanggal 9 Oktober 1982, resmilah SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan yang berlaku surut terhitung mulai tanggal 1 Juli 1982.

Setelah berjalan selama 15 tahun dengan nama SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan, maka berdasarkan SK Mendikbud RI nomor : 035/O/1997 tanggal 7 Maret 1997 tentang perubahan nomenklatur SMA menjadi SMU, maka terhitung mulai tanggal 5 Juni 1997 berubahlah nama SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan menjadi SMU Negeri 2 Kuningan. Kemudian dengan diberlakukannya Undang-undang Nomor 20 tahun 2003 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional, maka berdasarkan Surat Keputusan Kepala Dinas Pendidikan Kabupaten Kuningan Nomor : 421/116-Disdik/2004 tanggal 14 Januari 2004 tentang penyesuaian tata nama SLTP dan SMU, terhitung mulai tanggal 14 Januari 2004 disesuaikanlah, tata nama SMU Negeri 2 Kuningan menjadi SMA Negeri 2 Kuningan.

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