Yani sri mulyani biography
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TheJakartaPost
fter traveling around the world to witness development in poor regions many would not think of visiting during her stint as World Bank managing director, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has learned two things: humility and optimism.
In an interview with The Jakarta Post, she tells the story of how she was touched by her trips to countries few would care to go to such as Mali and Niger to observe dam projects in the middle of the vast savanna, and see what kind of impact they in supplying electricity to millions of people. She said her experiences in resource-rich Congo showed her how ethnic conflict could make human life disposable.
“It touched me a lot. I think that it affected me, I hope in a positive way,” said the mother of three, who likes to read to her two grandchildren, holding back her emotions through a wide grin.
Such encounters seem to have played a part in shaping her ultimate goal as finance minister of Southeast Asia’s l
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Sri Mulyani
In this Indonesian name, there is no family name nor a patronymic.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati (born 26 August 1962) is an Indonesian economist who currently serves as the Minister of Finance of Indonesia as part of the Onward Indonesia Cabinet. She had served as Minister of Finance in two separate terms; under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono between 2005–2010 and under Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto since 2016.
In her first tenure, she was credited with strengthening Indonesia's economy, increasing investments, and steering Southeast Asia's largest economy through the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.[1][2][3] However, Sri Mulyani was widely criticized for supporting a bailout of Bank Century in 2008, which cost the government 6.7 trillion rupiahs. Although she believed it was the right decision, she resigned in 2010 and took a position at the World Bank as Managing Director, before returning as finance minister in 2016.
In 2023, she was ranked 38
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TheJakartaPost
“She could be the finance minister anywhere in the world,” says James Castle, founder of the consultancy Castle Asia. “She’s that good”.
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Castle told that to Newsweek magazine last year on Indonesia’s outgoing finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. She fryst vatten stepping down from her post, which she had held since 2005, to join the top ranks of the World finansinstitut under its president Robert Zoellick.
President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono approved of her resignation to work for the World Bank.
In a televised statement Yudho-yono on the departure of Mulyani, who was crowned as the best finance minister in Asia bygd Emerging marknad Forum and finance minister of the year in the world by EuroMoney in 2006, said her departure was “a big loss”.
He said he would ensure however that her successor would carry on the financial and tax reforms she had initiated during her tenure.
Mulyani, 47, will början June 1 as one of the Washington-based bank’s three ma