Getting To Know Who Airlangga Hartarto Is

JAKARTA - Airlangga Hartarto is a businessman who has entered the world of practical politics as Golkar party cadres and functionaries. Airlangga Hartarto is a figure appointed by President Jokowi to serve as Coordinating Minister for the Economy of the Forward Indonesian Cabinet 2019-2024. Replacing the role of Darmin Nasution, who is no longer elected, this is Airlangga Hartarto's second season as a minister, having previously been elected due to the reshuffle of the Working Indonesia Cabinet as Minister of Industry replacing Saleh Husin.

Airlangga's role is expected to be able to continue the slick collaboration between ministries of economic sector, as well as accelerated development for Special Economic Zones or other industrial areas. For the sake of the birth of a leading industry based on export and import substitution.

Several important tasks of President Jokowi that must be resolved include several issues, namely: promoting financial inclusion, minimizing the trade balance deficit, evaluating one map policy and policy packages with sub-regional economic cooperation, to guarding the integrated integration system (OSS) and realizing credit. Real people's business.

Not to mention its central role to continue to monitor the work of the Central Inflation Control Team (TPIP) and the Indonesia National Single Window (INSW).

Airlangga Hartarto is the son of the late Ir. Hartarto Sastrosoenarto and R. Hartini Soekardi. His father's name was the name President Soeharto trusted in the cabinet of the New Order government. For fifteen years and three terms, Airlangga's father served as minister in various positions.

Ir. Hartarto Sastrosoenarto first entered the cabinet as Minister of Industry in the VI Development Cabinet. Then moved as Coordinating Minister for Production and Distribution of Development Cabinet VI. Finally, he completed a trip as an official with the Coordinating Minister for Supervision and Development and Empowerment of State Apparatus Development Cabinet VII.

The role of Ir. Hartarto as the initiator of Law Number 5 of 1984 concerning industry, when he took office in 1983 as Minister of Industry for the two periods at that time, managed to achieve a national GDP of around 28 percent.

Airlangga Hartarto graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Gadjah Mada University in 1987. Continuing his master's degree at Monash University, Australia in 1996. A year later, he earned a Master of Management Technology from The University of Melbourne, Australia.

His love for the UGM alma mater, did not make him hesitate to continue to be involved in the midst of his busy life as a businessman and politician, he was noted as a member of the UGM Board of Trustees for ten years from 2002 to 2012, Deputy Chairperson of the UGM Alumni Family (KAGAMA) 2005-2009 and Member KAGAMA Advisory Board 2009-2014.

In fact, when he served as Chairman of the UGM Faculty of Engineering Alumni Family in 2003, he was one of the initiators of the Herman Johannes Award, an award in the field of technological innovation.

Airlangga Hartarto was actually an entrepreneur during his early career. After graduating from college he started a business through PT. Graha Curah Niaga, a company engaged in the distribution of fertilizers. Continued as President Commissioner of PT Fajar Surya Wisesa (FASW) in 1987. With the position of President Director, he led PT. Jakarta Prime Crane in 1991.

In 1998 he decided to join the Golkar Party, until in 2004 he was appointed Deputy Treasurer of the Party for the 2004-2009 period. Trying his luck as a legislative candidate finally paid off. He entered the DPR Parliament for the 2009-2014 period as Chairman of Commission VI of the DPR-RI, which deals with the trade, industry, cooperatives, SMEs and BUMN sectors.

One season he has lived, he tried a second time and succeeded. Through the Electoral District of West Java V, Bogor Regency, Airlangga Hartarto won the support of 113,939 hopeful votes. In his second period, he was in charge of energy, mineral resources, the environment, research and technology.

The Setya Novanto scandal, which at that time was involved in the e-KTP case, forced his position as General Chairman of Golkar at that time to change. The figure of Airlangga Hartarto was finally officially elected as General Chair of Golkar as of December 13, 2017. Continuing with the re-election of the General Chair in 2019, his name became the only figure elected by acclamation through the support of official voters of the National Conference members.

Golkar's alignment with Jokowi during the presidential election made him trusted to carry out the task of continuing with Saleh Husin as Minister of Industry, after the reshuffle of the 1st Work Indonesia Cabinet in 2016.

On 27 July 2016, Airlangga succeeded in following the steps of his late father who served as Minister of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia. Airlangga Hartarto was officially appointed by Jokowi as the 28th Indonesian Minister of Industry to replace Saleh Husin.

Jokowi's second election to win the presidential election has shifted Airlangga's position to become Minister of the Indonesian Economy for the 2019-2014 period. As a minister who bridges between state economic institutions, for the sake of establishing neat, integrated and accelerated cooperation. Jokowi's hopes for the industrial sector 4.0 and how to reduce the state budget deficit are priority tasks among others.

Apart from his busy life as a businessman and government official as well as a party, he took the time to write several books such as "Clustering Strategies in Indonesian Industrialization" in 2004, then in 2014 "Building Independence, Realizing National Energy Security Sovereignty." Then two years later in 2016 with the title "Knitting Asa: Building Industry, Towards a Prosperous and Just Indonesia" published in 2016.

He has led all national engineers in the three years 2006-2009 as General Chair of the Indonesian Engineers Association (PII) and continued with the Chair of the PII Engineer Council for the 2009-2015 period.

Third Indonesian. He is the third person to receive the Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship award after Sri Mulyani in 2003 and Kuntoro Mangkusubroto in 2006. His figure is considered capable of strengthening the atmosphere of bilateral relations between Singapore and Indonesia in a more positive way. This award was obtained when he served as Minister of Industry in 2017. Several key programs include a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of education and vocational training between the two countries.

Learning from the figure of Probosutedjo. He admitted that his business journey was not separated from the figure of Probosutedjo in carrying out his business processes at the national level. This was expressed openly when Airlangga visited the funeral home when the mentor passed away in March 2018. I am sorry. He is my senior in the business world, who always inspires his juniors, "said Airlangga while mourning at the funeral home, Jalan Diponegoro Number 20, Central Jakarta, Monday, March 26 2018.

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Full Name: Airlangga Hartarto, ST, MBA, MMT

Place and Date of Birth Surabaya, October 1, 1962

Professions: Entrepreneurs, Politicians

Title / TitelS.T. (Bachelor of Engineering) MBA (Master of Business Administration) MMT (Master of Management Technology)

Couple Yanti K. Isfandiari

Assets (LHKPN) IDR 81,550,046,868

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EducationS-2: Master of Management Technology (MMT), Melbourne Business School University of Melbourne, Australia, 1997S-2: Master of Business Administration, Monash University of Australia, Australia, 1996S-1: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta , 1987

*** Award 2014 Satya Lencana Wira Karya

2009Australian Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship

2004Founding Fellow of the Asean Academy of Engineering Technology