1. Lukman Hakim was an Indonesian economist and diplomat who served as Minister of Finance between 1948 and 1950, serving under both the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of Indonesia during the United States of Indonesia period.
Lukman Hakim was born in Tuban, East Java on 14 October 1914.
Lukman Hakim initially worked in the Semarang tax office before being reassigned to Jakarta.
Lukman Hakim was then appointed Junior Minister for Finance in the Third Sjahrir Cabinet.
In July 1947, Lukman Hakim was appointed as State Commissioner for Finances in Sumatra and moved there.
The Prawiranegara government encountered difficulties with a shortage of Republican currency in Sumatra's interior, and Lukman Hakim sent instructions to the Republican local government in Jambi to issue the currency.
In January 1949, Lukman Hakim himself led a group in Jambi to physically print Republican money in the town of Muara Bungo, his group carrying cliches of the currency and using converted conventional printing equipment there to print the money.
Lukman Hakim continued to serve as finance minister for some time after the return of the Indonesian government to Yogyakarta, and served under the Susanto Cabinet and Halim Cabinet.
Lukman Hakim later replaced Prawiranegara to serve as BI governor between 1958 and 1959.
On 2 April 1961, Lukman Hakim was appointed as Indonesia's Ambassador to West Germany.
Lukman Hakim died on 20 August 1966 while still serving as ambassador in Bonn.