Biography of B. J. Habibie

Bacharudin Jusuf Habibie. Who doesn't know him? Everybody knows him. He is my inspiring person. Why? Here i will tell you a little biography about him, so you can know him better and maybe will inpire you.

As we used to call, "Pak Habibie" was born in Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi at 25 June 1936. He is the fourth of eight siblings. His father died when he was only 14 beause of heart attack.

As soos as the death of his father, his mother sold their car and bought a house in Bandung. She worked really hard to fulfill their family neeeds. Especially Habibie, who had big determination on studying. And then he became a student of Gouverments Middlebare School (Senior High School). He was so smart and clever. So he became favourite student of his school.

Habibie continued his study in ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology), and got scholarship to German and took majors of aerostation in Rhein Westfalen Aachen Technische Hochschule. His determination, and his mother's sacrifice to pay his study made him so ambitious and dilligent. Every summer holiday, while his friends were hanging out and spent money on shopping, he studied while looking for money to buy books and took examination.

He received an academic title "Diploma Ing" in 1960 with cumlaude predicate (perfect). With a degree in engineering, he took job in Firma Talbot. There, he found a technique to made a carriege that could carry light contain but has big volum. He applied metods on making wing of an airplane to that carriege. 

After that he continued his study for doctorate academic title in Technische Hochschule Die Facultaet Fuer Maschinenwesen Aachean. He married Hasri Ainun in 1962. The story how they met and fell in love till they married, you have known from a film title Habibie&Ainun, haven't you? 

He brought his wife to German and through hard life there, but they survived so they became succeed. And finally Habibie received "Dr. Ingenieur" and graduate with summa cumlaude predictae (perfect).He found a formulation named "Habibie Factor" because it can count crack propagation on random up to the atom of air plane so he got "Mr. Crack" nickname. His genious made him recognized by international institution. Beside that he received some award such as "Edward Warner Award", "Award Von Karman" almost same as nobel award. In national, he received "Ganesha Praja Manggala Bhakti Kencana" from ITB.


But Habibie didn't forget with homeland. Soekarno called him to bring forward Indonesia, so he was back. In Indonesia , 20 years Habibie served as Minister of State for Research and Technology or Head of BPPT, leads 10 BUMN Industries , selected by MPR became Vice President, and replaced President Suharto as a President of the Republic of Indonesia until finally he was forced  to stepped down because result of consultation of the East Timorese voted for independence . His accountability speech was rejected by MPR. Finally he moved to German and settled  there and  became a private citizen

On May 22, 2010 , his wife died at Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Hospital , Klinikum , Munich , Germany.It became a very deep grief for him and the people who felt lost . For him, Ainun is everything . Ainun is his eyes to see his life. For Ainun, he is everything, filler of love in her life. But every story has an end , every dream has a limit.