The economic decline and political unrest were both exacerbated by Soeharto’s announcement on January 21 that B.J. Habibie, an unpopular Cabinet minister with a penchant for expensive showcase ...

ONE of the most impressive leaders in the Southeast Asian region that I have ever met was Bacharuddin Jusuf "BJ" Habibie of Indonesia. He later became the country's third president in the late 1990s.

Dewi is also the Chairman of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, The Habibie Center, a private think-tank based in Jakarta. From August 2017 to August 2018 she is Distinguished Visiting ...

It is now reprinted with a new postscript which discusses the post-Suharto era from B. J. Habibie to Joko Widodo. Indonesia under Suharto had attempted to become a regional power to lead Southeast ...