Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Profile And Biography

This sixth president of Indonesia has a stocky body and always speaks with a straightforward and clear, served since October 20, 2004. He, along with Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla, was elected in 2004 Presidential Election, then he succeeded continue his administration for the second period with back to win the Presidential Election of 2009, this time with Vice President Boediono.

Name : Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Place, date of birth : Pacitan, East Java 09 September 1949

Address : (street) Jl. Alternatif Cibubur Puri Cikeas Indah No. 2 Nagrag Village Gunung Putri sub-district. Bogor - 16967

Religion : Moslem

Marital Status : Married

Wife : Kristiani Herawati

Children : Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono and Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono

Education

• 1973 : Indonesian Armed Forces Academy (Akabri)
• 1976 : American Language Course, Lackland, Texas - AS
• 1976 : Airbone and Ranger Course, Fort Benning - AS
• 1982 - 1983 : Infantry Officer Advanced Course, Fort Benning - AS
• 1983 : On the job training di 82-nd Airbone Division, Fort Bragg - AS
• 1983 : Jungle Warfare School, Panama
• 1984 : Antitank Weapon Course in Belgian and German
• 1985 : Battalion Command Courses
• 1988 - 1989 : Indonesian Army Command School
• Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas - AS
• Master of Art (MA) from Management Webster University, Missouri
• 2004 : Doctorate (Dr) Institut Pertanian Bogor, Indonesia

Working Experiences

• 2004 - now : President of the Republic Indonesia
• August, 10 2001 - March, 12 2004 : Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, Gotong Royong Cabinet
• October, 26 2000 - June, 01 2001 : Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, Gotong Royong Cabinet, Persatuan Nasional Cabinet
• October, 20 1999 - August, 26 2000 : Minister of Mining and Energy, Abdurrahman Wahid Cabinet
• February, 16 1998 - November 1998 : Chief of the Social and Political Staff of the Indonesian Armed Forces
• August, 23 1996 - August, 26 1997 : Commander of the Sriwijaya II Military Regional Command
• March 1996 - August 1996 : Chief of the Staff the Jakarta Military Regional Command
• November 1995 - November 1996 : Chief of the UN Military Watch in Bosnia from the United Nations Peacekeeping Force (UNPF)
• 1994 - 1995 : Commander of Pamungkas 072 Military Resort Command, Yogyakarta
• 1994 : Operational Assistant of Jakarta Military Regional Command
• 1993 : Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade, Kujang I of the Army Strategic Reserves Command

General TNI Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, popularly known as SBY, was born in Pacitan, East Java, on September, 9 1949. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1973-top in his class. He received his fourth star in 2000.

 In the first-ever direct presidential election in Indonesia in 2004, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, running on a platform for "more just, more peaceful, more prosperous, and more democratic Indonesia", was elected as the 6th President of the Republic of Indonesia, gaining a landslide 60% of the popular vote over the incumbent President Megawati Soekarnoputri.

President Yudhoyono is also an accomplished scholar. He was educated in the United States, where he received his Masters degree in Management from Webster University in 1991. He continued his study and earned a Doctorate Degree in Agricultural Economics from Bogor Institute of Agriculture, West Java, Indonesia, in 2004. President Yudhoyono was awarded with two honorary doctorates in 2005, respectively in the field of law from his alma mater, Webster University, and in political science from Thammasat University in Thailand.

During his 27-year distinguished military service, President Yudhoyono took an extensive range of training, education and courses, both in Indonesia and overseas. President Yudhoyono also held numerous important posts and positions as troop and territorial commander, staff officer, trainer and lecturer. He served both in the field and at headquarters, as well as missions overseas. He was the Commander of the United Nations Military Observers and Commander of the Indonesian Military Contingent in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1995-1996.

For his outstanding service, President Yudhoyono was decorated with 24 medals and awards, including the UNPKF Medal, the Bintang Dharma, the Bintang Mahaputera Adipurna and the Bintang Republik Indonesia Adipurna, the highest national medal for excellent service beyond the calls of duty.

Prior to being elected, President Yudhoyono held various important government positions, including Minister of Mining and Energy and Coordinating Minister for Political, Social, and Security Affairs in the National Unity Cabinet under President Abdurrahman Wahid. He again served as Coordinating Minister for Political, Social, and Security Affairs in the Gotong Royong Cabinet under President Megawati Soekarnoputri. It was in his capacity as Coordinating Minister that he became internationally recognized for leading Indonesia's counter-terrorism efforts.

President Yudhoyono is also known for his activities in various civil society organizations. He served as Co-Chairman of the Governing Board of the Partnership for the Governance Reform, a joint Indonesian-international organization focused on the improvement of governance in Indonesia. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Brighten Institute, an institution devoted to studying the theory and practice of national development policy.

President Yudhoyono is a keen reader and has authored a number of books and articles including: Transforming Indonesia: Selected International Speeches (2005), Peace deal with Aceh is just a beginning (2005), The Making of a Hero (2005), Revitalization of the Indonesian Economy: Business, Politics and Good Governance (2002), and Coping with the Crisis - Securing the Reform (1999). Garden of Life is his anthology published in 2004. President Yudhoyono speaks English fluently.

President Yudhoyono is a devoted Moslem. He is married to Madam Ani Herrawati. The first couple is blessed with two sons. The oldest is First Lieutenant Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, who graduated top in his class from the Military Academy in 2000 and is now serving at the elite 305th Airborne Battalion of the Army Strategic Reserves Command (KOSTRAD). The youngest, Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, earned his degree in Economics from Curtin University, Australia.

Barack Obama Profile and Biography

Barack Obama which has the full name Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital (now called Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children) in Honolulu, Hawaii, the first President to have been born in Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas. Of mostly English descent, her family also traces to Germany, Wales and Ireland; his great grandfather was born in County Offaly. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya.

Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married on February 2, 1961, separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. He died in an automobile accident in 1982.

After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college in Hawaii. When Suharto, a military leader in Soetoro's home country, came to power in 1967, all Indonesian students studying abroad were recalled, and the family moved to the Menteng neighborhood of Jakarta. From ages six to ten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School and St. Francis of Assisi School.

In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham, and attended Punahou School, a private college preparatory school, from the fifth grade until his graduation from high school in 1979. Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972, remaining there until 1977 when she went back to Indonesia to work as an anthropological field worker. She finally returned to Hawaii in 1994 and lived there for one year, before dying of ovarian cancer.

Of his early childhood, Obama recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk barely registered in my mind. He described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear. Obama has also written and talked about using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind. At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency, Obama identified his high-school drug use as a great moral failure.

Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College. In February 1981, he made his first public speech, calling for Occidental's divestment from South Africa. In mid-1981, Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and sister Maya, and visited the families of college friends in India and Pakistan for three weeks.

Later in 1981 he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and graduated with a B.A. in 1983. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation, then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. source: wikipedia

Soeharto Profile and Biography

For Indonesian people who is not familiar with the president Soeharto the second president of Indonesia after president Soekarno down position.

Soeharto was born on June 8 1921 - January 27 2008 from among ordinary people in the sub-village of Kemasuk, Agromulyo village, Sedayu sub-district, Bantul - Yogyakarta - Indonesia, his father named Kartosoediro, a farmer, ulu-ulu, and rural workers water control, while his mother was Soekirah, shortly after birth Soeharto this couple divorced. Kartosoediro later married again, of his father's second marriage was Suharto's has 11 half brother.

Suharto's childhood passed with so hard, he had to move where to attend school and eventually settled Suharto at his aunt's house in the area Wuriantoro - Wonogiri - Central Java. This is where Suharto gain knowledge about farming from his uncle who worked as an orderly agriculture.

After graduating from elementary school Suharto continued to Schakel School Muhammadiyah schools in Wonogiri before becoming a soldier Suharto's first profession was as an assistant Clerk Village Bank. His army Career starting from become KNIL army and at the time of Japanese occupation Suharto later joined by PETA soldiers and when the proclamation was proclaimed to the entire Indonesian nation he joined the BKR army (People's Safety Agency) is the forerunner of the Indonesian National Army.

As a soldier field Suharto has been deeply involved in the field of physical struggle. In April 1950 when Suharto was a brigade commander of Mataram, Suharto successfully to stop the rebellion in Makassar, the years 1951-1953 Suharto successfully quell the rebellion DI / TII and rebellion battalion 426.

In 1956 Suharto was appointed commander Dipenogoro, three years later on the decision of the general Kasad AH. Nasution, Suharto drawn to attend a school of the Army Staff and Command (Seskoad). And in 1962, Suharto became commander of the Japanese in charge of western Irian recaptured from the Dutch colonialists.

Suharto increasingly prominent role in the event of rebellion PKI/30 September 1965, State the situation is very chaotic at that time, the prices are very expensive needs, the high price of fuel and cutting rupiah. And finally on 11 March 1966 he received full authority from President Sukarno to control the situation was chaotic state. On February 22 1967, Through the Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (Provisional People's Consultative Assembly), Suharto was appointed president of the official and a year later that is at its peak Suharto was appointed president of the Republic of Indonesia through a special session of Assembly on March 27, 1968.

Over 32 years Suharto ruled Indonesia, recognized the development is quite fast but can not be denied also the Suharto government is not free from criticism, a lot of practice Corruption, Collusion and Nepotism and still rooted in the government of SBY.

Suharto received strong protests from around the nation Indonesia including from among the students who are very loud in the process of the overthrow of Suharto's rule and, ultimately backed away from power as president on May 21, 1998, Suharto declared retired as president at the age of 77 years.