Kwik Kian Gie
Kwik Kian Gie was an Indonesian economist and politician who served as the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs from 1999 to 2000, the Minister of National Development Planning from 2001 to 2004, as well as briefly serving as the Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly in 1999. He was a prominent Indonesian economist who often wrote columns in the newspaper Kompas criticizing the policies of the Suharto administration in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Early life
Following working in a teaching post in the Economics Department in the University of Indonesia, he undertook further studies in the Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Life in the Netherlands did indeed bring big changes to Kwik's personal life. He went to the Netherlands alone, but when he returned to Indonesia Kwik brought three people with him. They were Dirkje Johanna de Widt, and his two children Kwik Ing Hie and Kwik Mu Lan. Of his three children, only the youngest, Kwik Ing Lan, was born in Indonesia.
Career
After a few years working in the Netherlands following his graduation he returned to Indonesia and held several executive positions and became a businessman. He maintained a strong interest in politics and education, and said to the press that, "I now have enough money to pay for anything I can wish for," and with that started his involvement with the PDI-P opposition political party of Megawati Sukarnoputri.He also founded Institut Bisnis & Informatika Indonesia which is now known as Kwik Kian Gie School of Business, a business and management school in Indonesia, with his colleagues.