B. J. HABIBIE : PRESIDENT R.I 3 : (1998-1999)

Born: Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi, June 25, 1936

Religion : Moeslem

Education: Elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, Bandung (1954); earned a Diploma Ingenieur majors Aircraft Construction Rheinisc-Westflaelische Tegnische, Aachen, West Germany.

Experience: Assistant Science Research Institute of the Technische Rheinisc Light Construction, Aachen, West Germany (1960-1965); State Minister for Research and Technology (1978); President Director of PT Pal, Surabaya (1978); BPPT Chairman; Chairman of ICMI.

Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, became president on May 21, 1998 replace General Suharto, who resigned because they were forced back by the people. Previously, B.J. Being vice President Habibie seventh 1998-2003 period, but he only took office for approximately two months.

In the age of 13 years, Rudy, said Habibie called, left his father's death, Alwie Abdul Jalil Habibie, the former head of the agriculture department in South Sulawesi. His mother, RA Tutu Marini Puspowardjo from Yogyakarta who advocate Habibie to go to Bandung to enter junior high school, then he followed after his son's second grade high school. A year at the ITB, the efforts of his mother, Habibie P & K was awarded a scholarship to study in western Germany. Engineering degree machine and aircraft construction in reach Habibie at the age of 21 years, he then continue his study again at their own expense. Time passed, Habibie the first outside Germany, after World War II that made the thesis about aeronautics.

Habibie then worked as a research assistant at the Technische Hocheschule (TH) Aachen, he produced designs submarines in (Deep Sea), railway carriages, also room temperature and high pressure from the atomic reactor to center Julich. As a scholar, then vice president Messrchumitt Bolkow-Blohm (MBB), he designed several types of aircraft, including projects of satellites and missiles.

In 1974, because of intelligence Habibie made president Soeharto mamanggilnya return to Indonesia. Subsequently he was appointed adviser to the President, leading the Technology Division Adveced Pertamina, which is the forerunner of BPPT and pioneering aircraft industry in Bandung. He also managed to make the first Indonesian CN-235 aircraft.

B.J Habibie step down as President on October 20, 1999 because accountability is not accepted by the general session of the Assembly in 1999.