Faisal Basri (born November 6, 1959) is an Indonesian

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and

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. He is a faculty member at

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, specializing in

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, and a member of KPPU, Indonesian

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. Basri is the grandnephew of Indonesia's third

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. In 2012, Basri ran for governor in the Jakarta gubernatorial election as

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along with

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, the son of a prominent Betawi figure, Benyamin Sueb, but he was unsuccessful in winning the governorship, with fewer votes than

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, Fauzi Bowo, and

Hidayat Nur Wahid Hidayat Nur Wahid (born 8 April 1960 in Klaten, Central Java) was the Speaker of Indonesia People's Consultative Assembly (''Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat''/MPR) for the 2004–2009 period. He resigned as the leader of Prosperous Justice Party ( ...

, and ahead of Alex Noerdin and Hendarji Supanji.

Early life and education

Basri was born in

Bandung Bandung ( su, ᮘᮔ᮪ᮓᮥᮀ, Bandung, ; ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java. It has a population of 2,452,943 within its city limits according to the official estimates as at mid 2021, making it the fourth mos ...

West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Bante ...

on November 6, 1959 to Hasan Basri and Saidah Nasution. His family moved to Jakarta in 1966 after his father got a job in a printing company in Setiabudi, South Jakarta. He obtained his degree in economics in 1985 from

. Basri completed his MA at

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in 1988.

References

Living people Vanderbilt University alumni 20th-century Indonesian economists People of Batak descent 1959 births Indonesian politicians 21st-century Indonesian economists {{economist-stub