Boediono (pronounced [budiˈjono] (help·info); born February 25, 1943) is the Vice President of Indonesia, after winning the 2009 presidential election together with incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Boediono received his bachelor's degree from the University of Western Australia in 1967, his master's degree from Monash University in 1972, and his doctorate degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He al...
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Boediono (pronounced [budiˈjono] (help·info); born February 25, 1943) is the Vice President of Indonesia, after winning the 2009 presidential election together with incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Boediono received his bachelor's degree from the University of Western Australia in 1967, his master's degree from Monash University in 1972, and his doctorate degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He also worked at the Australian National University in the 1970s as a research assistant.
Boediono was listed as one of the Wharton School's 125 Influential People and Ideas in 2007 and was dubbed as "Indonesia's financial rudder".
Boediono was a Bank Indonesia deputy governor in charge of fiscal monetary policy from 1997 to 1998 and served as State Minister of National Planning and Development from 1998 to October 1999.
Following the removal of Abdurrahman Wahid from the presidency in 2001, President Megawati Sukarnoputri appointed Boediono as...
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