Anies Baswedan

Anies Rasyid Baswedan (, born 7 May 1969) is an Indonesian academic, activist, and politician who served as the Governor of Jakarta from 2017 to 2022, as an Independent. A student activist and political analyst before entering public service, he served as rector of Paramadina University before being appointed to be Minister of Education and Culture in Joko Widodo administration. He is also the founder of Indonesia Mengajar, a program that selects, trains, and assigns university graduates to serve in a one-year teaching mission across the country. He is the grandson of nationalist, journalist, and freedom fighter Abdurrahman Baswedan, and the cousin of Novel Baswedan. Early life, family, and education Early life and family Anies Rasyid Baswedan was born on 7 May 1969, in Kuningan, West Java, as the eldest son and child of the three children. His father, Rasyid Baswedan, was born in Yogyakarta, in 1934, and was a rector at Islamic University of Indonesia of Hadhrami-Javanese descent. While his mother, Aliyah Rasyid, was born in Cipicung in 1940, and is a lecturer of Sundanese descent at Yogyakarta State University, and was graduated from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia in 1965. The couple later met and married in 1968 and was resided in Yogyakarta. His paternal grandfather, Abdurrahman Baswedan, was a prominent Arab-Indonesian activist who served as a cabinet minister during the Indonesian National Revolution.He had two brothers, Ridwan Rasyid Baswedan, a reform activist who was born in 1973, and Abdillah Rasyid Baswedan, a businessman. He married his wife, Fery in 1996. They have 4 children named Mutiara Anissa Baswedan (FH UI 2016), Mikail Azizi Baswedan (Accounting UI 2019, prev Accounting UGM 2018), Kaisar Hakam Baswedan, and Ismail Hakim Baswedan. Education Anies grew up in Yogyakarta, attending SMP Negeri 5 and SMA Negeri 2 Yogyakarta. In 1987, he spent one year as an AFS Intercultural Programs exchange student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He returned to Indonesia, and enrolled at Gadjah Mada University, spending a summer attending Summer Session of Asian Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, and graduating with a degree in business management. As a Fulbright Scholar, he went to receive his M.P.M. in international security and economic policy from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (where he was a William P. Cole III Fellow), and Ph.D. in political science from Northern Illinois University, where he was a Gerald S. Maryanov Fellow.