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Jusuf Kalla

His Excellency Dr(HC). Drs. H.
Jusuf Kalla
M.B.A.
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10th and 12th Vice President of Indonesia
Assumed office
20 October 2014
President Joko Widodo
Preceded by Boediono
In office
20 October 2004 – 20 October 2009
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Preceded by Hamzah Haz
Succeeded by Boediono
Leader of Golkar
In office
9 October 2004 – 9 October 2009
Preceded by Akbar Tandjung
Succeeded by Aburizal Bakrie
Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare
In office
9 August 2001 – 22 April 2004
President Megawati Soekarnoputri
Preceded by Basri Hasanuddin
Succeeded by Abdul Malik Fadjar
(ad interim)
Minister of Trade and Industry
In office
26 October 1999 – 24 August 2000
President Abdurahman Wahid
Preceded by Rahardi Ramelan
Succeeded by Luhut Binsar Panjaitan
Personal details
Born (1942-05-15) 15 May 1942 (age 74)
Watampone, South Sulawesi, Japanese-occupied East Indies
Nationality Indonesian
Political party Golkar Party
Spouse(s) Mufidah Miad Saad
Children Muchlisa Kalla
Muswira Kalla
Imelda Kalla
Solichin Kalla
Chaerani Kalla
Alma mater Hasanuddin University (Drs.)
INSEAD (M.B.A.)
University of Malaya (Dr.h.c.)
Sōka University (Dr.h.c.)
Indonesia University of Education (Dr.h.c.)
Hasanuddin University (Dr.h.c.)
Syiah Kuala University (Dr.h.c.)
University of Brawijaya (Dr.h.c.)
University of Indonesia (Dr.h.c.)
Profession Businessman
Religion Sunni Islam
Website www.wapresri.go.id

About this sound Muhammad Jusuf Kalla  (born 15 May 1942) is an Indonesian politician who has been Vice President of Indonesia since 2014, having previously served from 2004 to 2009. He was unsuccessful as Golkar's presidential candidate in the 2009 presidential election. Since 2009 Kalla has served as the Chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross Society. Before Kalla declared himself as the running mate for Joko Widodo in the 2014 presidential election, a 2012 poll placed his popularity among likely voters in the top three contenders for the presidency and ahead of his own party's nominee Aburizal Bakrie. He is the first person to hold two non-consecutive terms as Vice President of Indonesia.

Jusuf Kalla was born on 15 May 1942 in Watampone, the capital of the Bone Regency in South Sulawesi. His parents were Hadji Kalla, a local businessman and Athirah, a woman who sold Buginese silk for a living. He was the second of 10 children.

After completing school, Kalla attended Hasanuddin University in Makassar. At university he became active in the Indonesian Student Action Front (KAMI), a student organization which supported General Suharto in his bid to gain power from president Sukarno. Kalla was elected as chair of South Sulawesi branch of KAMI. He showed interest in a political career, becoming a member of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) and chairman of the Youth Division of Golkar when it was still organised under a Joint Secretariat (Sekretariat Bersama or Sekber) format.


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