Radius Prawiro
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Indonesian name Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Radius Prawiro (29 June 1928 – 26 May 2005) was an Indonesian economist and politician.
Education
The son of Suradi Prawiro, a teacher, Radius attended school in Yogyakarta. In 1942, while still at Middle School he became a cigarette vendor. After finishing school, he continued his education in the Nederlands Economische Hogeschool in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Returning to Indonesia, he completed a doctorate at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta.
Career
His economic and political career began as the Secretary of the People's Security Committee (Badan Keamanan Rakyat) in Yogyakarta in 1945 and continued as Template:Interlanguage link Liaison Officer (Perwira Markas Tertinggi Perhubungan TRI) in Yogyakarta from 1947 to 1948, was on the Staff of the Military Governor of the Yogyakarta from 1945 to 1951 and worked as a Technical Officer in the National Accounting Office (Pegawai Teknis Direktorat Akuntan Negara) from 1960 to 1965. He then held the position of Deputy Minister for the National Audit Office of Indonesia (Deputi Menteri Pemeriksa Keuangan Negara) (1965), Deputy Minister for the central bank (1965), Governor of the National Bank of Indonesia (1966), Governor of Bank Indonesia (1966–1973), and served concurrently as Governor of the International Monetary Fund and the Vice-Governor of the Asian Development Bank for Indonesia from 1967 to 1971.
Radius became a member of the President's Economic Experts Team, and served as Head of the Governing Committee of the World Bank (1971–1973). He was then appointed Minister of Trade in both the Second Development Cabinet and the Third Development Cabinet (1973–1983), Finance Minister in the Fourth Development Cabinet (1983–1988) and was Coordinating Minister of the Economics, Finance and Industry and Development Supervisory Board from 1993.
He recorded his views of economic policy in Indonesia in a useful book Indonesia's Struggle for Economic Development published in 1998.[1]
Honours
National
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- File:Bintang Republik Indonesia Utama rib.svg Star of the Republic of Indonesia (3rd Class) (1998) (Template:Langx)[2][3]
- File:Bintang Mahaputera Adipradana rib.svg Star of Mahaputera (2nd Class) (1973) (Template:Langx)[3]
Foreign Honours
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- File:BEL Order of Leopold II - Grand Cross ribbon bar.png Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II
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- File:JPN Zuiho-sho (WW2) 1Class BAR.svg Order of the Sacred Treasure 1st Class (1994)
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- File:Order of Orange-Nassau ribbon - Knight Grand Cross Ribbon.png Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau (1986)
- Template:Country data Spain:
- File:ESP Order of Civil Merit GC.svg Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1984)[4][5]
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Notes
References
- ↑ Prawiro, Radius (1998), Indonesia's Struggle for Economic Development: Pragmatism in Action, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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External links
- "Radius Prawiro Meninggal Dunia", Liputan 6, 26 May 2005 (Indonesian)
- Profil di tokohindonesia.com (Indonesian)
- "Radius Prawiro Meninggal Dunia", KOMPAS, 26 May 2005 (Indonesian)
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- "Radius Prawiro Wafat", DetikCom, 26 May 2005 (Indonesian)