1. Djandji Akbar Zahiruddin Tandjung was born on 14 August 1945 and is an Indonesian politician who served as the Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 1999 until 2004.
18 Facts About Akbar Tandjung
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Akbar Tandjung was Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 1999 to 2004.
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Djandji Akbar Zahiruddin Tandjung was born on 14 August 1945 in Sorkam, North Sumatra during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.
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The son of Zahiruddin Tandjung and Siti Kasmijah, he is a Muslim Pesisir by ethnicity.
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Akbar Tandjung is the 13th of 16 siblings, four of whom died before adulthood.
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Akbar Tandjung attended the Muhammadiyah People's School in Sorkam, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra province.
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Akbar Tandjung attended Christian Elementary School in Medan, North Sumatra.
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Akbar Tandjung studied at the University of Indonesia, where he engaged in student activism and served as president of the Faculty of Technology.
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Akbar Tandjung joined the Indonesian National Youth Committee, which is affiliated with Golkar.
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In 1976, then-Golkar leader Amir Murtono invited Akbar Tandjung to stand for election for the party.
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In 1977, Akbar Tandjung was elected to the House of Representatives, representing Golkar for East Java province.
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Akbar Tandjung then served as State Minister of Housing from March 1993 to May 1998.
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Akbar Tandjung was chairman of Golkar from 1998 to 2004, helping to rebuild the party following Suharto's 1998 resignation.
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At the Golkar convention in December 2004, Akbar Tandjung lost the party's chairmanship to Jusuf Kalla, at that time the country's vice president.
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The party ended up dropping Bakrie as its candidate and threw its weight behind Prabowo Subianto, with Akbar Tandjung serving as one of his campaign advisers.
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In 2017, Akbar Tandjung expressed concern that Golkar could lose legislative seats in Indonesia's 2019 elections because of a negative public perception of its chairman, Setya Novanto.
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Akbar Tandjung said the party should make changes to improve its image.
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Akbar Tandjung remained free pending a lengthy appeal process and continued to hold his government and political jobs.