B.J. Habibie
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie is the
third President of Indonesia. He was born on June 25,
1936 in Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi (1). 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 (RWTH) (2), 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 (3). When holiday ended, he
did not do anything except studying. In 1960, he graduated with great score,
almost perfect (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 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 (4), 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 (5).
In 2012, the life of
Habibie and how he met Ainun were filmed and got high rates for the
inspirational story. 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.
(Source : https://www.belajarbahasainggrisku.id/2016/08/biografi-b-j-habibie-dalam-bahasa-inggris-artinya.html)
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