Syahril Sabirin

Syahril Sabirin served as the Governor of Bank Indonesia from 1999 to 2003, succeeding Soedrajad Djiwandono.
Before joining Bank Indonesia, Syahril studied at Gadjah [Mada University] in Yogyakarta, graduating with an economics degree from the Faculty of Economics in the university.
In 2000 he was arrested in a fraud scandal surrounding Bank Bali. Sabirin had initially been sentenced to three years in prison in 2002, a sentence which the Supreme Court reduced to two years in 2009.