Boediono Explained

Order:11th
Office:Vice President of Indonesia
Term Start:20 October 2009
Term End:20 October 2014
Successor:Jusuf Kalla
Order1:13th
Office1:Bank Indonesia#List of governorsGovernor of Bank Indonesia
Term Start1:22 May 2008
Term End1:16 May 2009
President1:Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Order2:12th
Office2:Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs#MinisterCoordinating Minister for Economic Affairs
Term Start2:5 December 2005
Term End2:22 May 2008
President2:Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Order3:24th
Office3:List of Ministers of Finance (Indonesia)Minister of Finance
Term Start3:9 August 2001
Term End3:20 October 2004
Successor3:Jusuf Anwar
Order4:8th
Office4:Ministry of National Development Planning of IndonesiaState Minister of National Development Planning
Term Start4:23 May 1998
Term End4:20 October 1999
Birth Date:25 February 1943
Spouse:[1]
Signature:Boediono signature.svg

Boediono (EYD: Budiono, pronounced in Malay pronounced as /budiˈjono/; born 25 February 1943) is an Indonesian politician and economist who served as the 11th vice president of Indonesia from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Before this, he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.

Education

Boediono received his early education in primary school in Blitar, East Java. In the early 1960s, he began university studies at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta before winning a scholarship to study at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 1967 he graduated from the University of Western Australia with an economics degree and continued his studies for a master's degree in economics at Monash University in Melbourne which he completed in 1972. Later, he undertook further studies toward his doctorate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania which he completed in 1979.[2] He also worked in the Indonesia Project at the Australian National University in the early 1970s as a research assistant in economics.[3]

Boediono was listed as one of the Wharton School's 125 Influential People and Ideas in 2007 and was dubbed "Indonesia's financial rudder".[4]

Career

Boediono was a Bank of Indonesia deputy governor in charge of fiscal monetary policy from 1997 to 1998 and served as State Minister of National Planning and Development from 1998 to October 1999.

Following the removal of Abdurrahman Wahid from the presidency in 2001, President Megawati Sukarnoputri appointed Boediono as Minister of Finance in her new administration. Under his leadership, the economy grew by 4% in 2002.[5]

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed Boediono as Coordinating Minister for the Economy during his first cabinet reshuffle in 2005, replacing Aburizal Bakrie. Bakrie had come under suspicion for having conflicts of interest.[6] In 2008, a commission of the People's Representative Council elected Boediono Governor of the Indonesian central bank, Bank Indonesia.[7] After he was selected by Yudhoyono as a running mate in the 2009 presidential election, Boediono submitted his resignation from the central bank post.[8]

Boediono is also a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University where he has taught various courses on macroeconomics and monetary policy since the early 1970s.

Honorary degrees

Boediono has received honorary degrees from the three Australian universities which he studied and worked between the early 1960s and 1970s.

In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of West Australia in Perth.[9] In February 2013 in a ceremony in Jakarta attended by the president of Indonesia and a delegation from Monash University led by the Vice-Chancellor of the university, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University.[10] And in November 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Australian National University in Canberra.[11]

Publications and papers

Since he was appointed a staff member in the Faculty of Economics, Gadjah Mada University, in the early 1970s, Boediono has lectured and published widely on topics relating to contemporary issues of economic policy in Indonesia. His publications include the following.

Decorations

As the vice president of Indonesia, Boediono is automatically bestowed the highest class of six out of seven civilian Star Decorations (Indonesian: Tanda Kehormatan Bintang), namely:[12]

Additional reading

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obrolan Santai Dengan Istri Cawapres . Tabloid Nova . 27 July 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090613042657/http://www.tabloidnova.com/Nova2/News/Peristiwa/Herawati-Boediono-Surat-Cinta-Pak-Boed-Masih-Saya-Simpan!-2 . 13 June 2009 . dead . id .
  2. Web site: Who's Who . . 15 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090512231717/http://www.thejakartapost.com/directory/whos_who/B . 12 May 2009.
  3. News: Stephen . Fitzpatrick . Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono running mate Boediono has Aussie links . The Australian . 14 May 2009 . 15 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090517023404/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25475261-2703,00.html . 17 May 2009 . dead . . See also, Colin Brown, 2015, Australia's Indonesia Project: 50 Years of Engagement, Bobby Graham Publishers, Manuka, ACT.
  4. News: Indonesia's financial rudder . Rimanews.com . 3 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150704054103/http://ekonomi.rimanews.com/investasi/read/20150323/203257/Mantan-Wapres-Boediono-Kritisi-Kesiapan-Indonesia-Hadapi-MEA . 4 July 2015 . dead .
  5. News: Boediono . BusinessWeek . 9 June 2003 . 15 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090516233232/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_23/b3836622.htm . 16 May 2009.
  6. News: The Boediono Factor . . 7 December 2005 . 15 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090523090923/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2005/12/07/boediono-factor.html . 23 May 2009.
  7. News: House approves Boediono as central bank governor . . 8 April 2008 . 15 May 2009.
  8. News: Adriana Nina . Kusuma . Gde Anugrah Arka . Indonesia c.bank governor resigns to run as VP . Reuters. 15 May 2009 . 16 May 2009.
  9. 'Indonesia's Vice-President returns to UWA for prestigious award', 11 March 2011.
  10. 'Honorary Doctorate for Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia', 20 February 2013.
  11. 'Vice President Dr Boediono received an honorary degree from ANU', 18 November 2013.
  12. Web site: Tanda Kehormatan yang dimiliki Presiden. Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia. id. 23 August 2019. 10 May 2019.