Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 9 September 1949), is an Indonesian retired military general and politician. He was the sixth President of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the first president to be elected directly by voters. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won the presidency on 20 September 2004. He defeated President Megawati Soekarnoputri.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
6th President of Indonesia
In office 20 October 2004 – 20 October 2014
Vice President	Jusuf Kalla (2004-2009) Boediono (2009-2014)
Preceded by	Megawati Soekarnoputri
Succeeded by	Joko Widodo
Leader of the Democratic Party
In office 30 March 2013 – 15 March 2020
Preceded by	Anas Urbaningrum
Succeeded by	Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
8th and 10th Coordinating Minister of Politics, Social, and Security of Indonesia
In office 10 August 2001 – 11 March 2004
President	Megawati Soekarnoputri
Preceded by	Agum Gumelar
Succeeded by	Hari Sabarno
In office 26 August 2000 – 1 June 2001
President	Abdurrahman Wahid
Preceded by	Soejardi Soedirja
Succeeded by	Agum Gumelar
Minister of Mining and Energy
In office 29 October 1999 – 26 August 2000
President	Abdurrahman Wahid
Preceded by	Kuntoro Mangkusubroto
Succeeded by	Purnomo Yusgiantoro
Personal details
Born	(1949-09-09) September 9, 1949 (age 75) Arjosari, Pacitan, Indonesia
Political party	Democratic Party
Height	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Spouse(s)	Ani Yudhoyono ​ ​ (m. 1976; died 2019)​
Children	Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono
Mother	Siti Habibah
Father	Soekotjo
Alma mater	Indonesian Military Academy United States Army Command and General Staff College Webster University Bogor Agricultural University
Awards	Adhi Makayasa (1973)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Indonesia
Branch/service	Indonesian Army
Years of service	1973 - 2000
Rank	TNI General

Life

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was born on 9 September 1949, in Tremas, a village in Arjosari, Pacitan Regency, East Java, to a lower-middle-class family. His father was a Javanese man named Raden Soekotjo (1925 – 4 August 2001), whose lineage can be traced to Hamengkubuwono II,^[1] while his mother was a Javanese woman named Siti Habibah (30 June 1932 – 30 August 2019).^[2]

General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in official military portrait, 2000.

He service in military 1973 to 2000,^[3] Yudhoyono ended his military career with the rank of lieutenant general, although he would be made honorary general in 2000.^[4]

Political

Yudhoyono was appointed mining and energy minister in the cabinet of President Abdurrahman Wahid in 1999.^[5] According to General Wiranto, who assisted Wahid in the formation of the Cabinet, he had recommended to the president that Yudhoyono would do better as Army chief of staff. In August 2000, after a Cabinet reshuffle, Yudhoyono became the coordinating minister for politic and security affairs. One of his tasks was to separate the army from politics. This was in line with his reformist ideas on the future of Indonesian military, and is a view he has held since his days in an army policy center.

Yudhoyono's supporters saw Yudhoyono's participation in the vice-presidential election as a sign of his popularity and recognised Yudhoyono's potential as a possible leader for Indonesia. One of these supporters, Vence Rumangkang approached Yudhoyono with the idea of forming a political party to help shore up support for the 2004 presidential elections. Yudhoyono approved of the idea and after going through the basic concepts, left Rumangkang in charge of forming the Party.

From 12 to 19 August 2001, Rumangkang began holding a series of meetings to discuss the formation of the party while holding consultations with Yudhoyono. Yudhoyono personally led the meetings on 19 and 20 August 2001, and the basic outline of the Democratic Party was finalised.

On 9 September 2001, the formation of the party was officially declared and on 10 September it was registered at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.

The organizers behind Democratic Party's formation went to extreme lengths to make sure that PD was Yudhoyono's personal political party. The declaration of its formation was 9 September 2001, which was Yudhoyono's birthday and to start off with, the Party had 99 members.

In 2004 presidential election, with 69,266,350 popular vote he replace Megawati Sukarnoputri. He re-elected in 2009 presidential election.