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Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n politician who was the 10th Vice President of Indonesia

Vice President of Indonesia

The Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia is the first in the line of succession in the Republic of Indonesia.-History of the office:The Indonesian Vice Presidency was established during the formulation of the 1945 constitution by the Researching Body for the Preparation of the Indonesian...

 from 2004 to 2009 and Chairman of the Golkar

Golkar

The Party of the Functional Groups is a political party in Indonesia. It is also known as Sekber Golkar . It was the ruling party during Suharto's regime...

 Party during the same period. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2009 presidential election

Indonesian presidential election, 2009

Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on 8 July 2009. The elections returned a president and vice president for the 2009–2014 period. A run-off election was scheduled to be held on 8 September if needed, but President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won more than 60% of the vote in the first...

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Jusuf Kalla was born on 15 May 1942 in Watampone, South Sulawesi. His parents were Hadji Kalla, a local businessman and Athirah, a woman who sold Buginese

Buginese

Buginese can refer to:* Bugis, a nomadic Malayan people of south-western Sulawesi, Indonesia.* Buginese language , spoken in the southern part of Sulawesi.*Buginese script...

 silk for a living.