The Most Famous

ECONOMISTS from Indonesia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 2 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 27th most number of Economists behind Switzerland, and Kenya.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Economists of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Boediono (b. 1943)

With an HPI of 56.81, Boediono is the most famous Indonesian Economist.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Boediono (EYD: Budiono, pronounced [budiˈjono] ; born 25 February 1943) is an Indonesian politician and economist who served as the 11th vice president of Indonesia from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Before this, he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.

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2. Sri Mulyani (b. 1962)

With an HPI of 49.77, Sri Mulyani is the 2nd most famous Indonesian Economist.  Her biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati (born 26 August 1962) is an Indonesian economist who has served as Minister of Finance of Indonesia since 2016 under President Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto. She has previously served in the role under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono between 2005–2010. In her first tenure, she was credited with strengthening Indonesia's economy, increasing investments, and steering Southeast Asia's largest economy through the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession. However, she was widely criticized for supporting a bailout of Bank Century in 2008, which costed the government Rp6.76 trillion ($737 million in 2008), resulting in the Indonesian House of Representatives holding a non-confidence vote on the bailout warrant. She resigned her post 2010 and took a position at the World Bank as Managing Director, before returning as finance minister in 2016. In 2023, she was ranked 38th on the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Indonesian economists born between 1943 and 1962. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indonesian economists include Boediono, and Sri Mulyani. As of April 2024, 2 new Indonesian economists have been added to Pantheon including Boediono, and Sri Mulyani.

Living Indonesian Economists

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Newly Added Indonesian Economists (2024)

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