Sabtu, 11 Januari 2020

Get to know the figure of Nadiem Anwar Makarim


Nadiem Anwar Makarim, B.A., M.B.A. born in Singapore, July 4, 1984 he is the son of the couple Nono Anwar Makarim and Atika Algadri. His father is a prominent activist and lawyer. While his mother is a freelance writer.

Nadiem Makarim is an Indonesian businessman and also the founder of Gojek, a transportation company and online-based service provider that operates in Indonesia and a number of Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand. And currently he serves as Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia in the Indonesian Cabinet of President Joko Widodo-K.H Mar'uf Amin's government, which was installed on October 23, 2019.

Little Nadiem underwent a process of basic education until high school moved from Jakarta to Singapore. After completing his high school education in Singapore, in 2002 he majored in International Relations at Brown University, United States. Nadiem briefly attended a student exchange at the London School of Economics. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in 2006, three years later he took up a post-graduate degree and earned a Master of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

In 2016, Nadiem received the The Straits Times Asian of the Year award, and was the first Indonesian to receive the award since it was first established in 2012.
And also included in the 2018 version of Bloomberg 50. Bloomberg assessed that there is no other application that has changed lives in Indonesia as quickly and deeply as Gojek.
In May 2019, Nadiem became the youngest figure in Asia to receive the 24th Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic and Business Innovation. The award is given to individuals or organizations that contribute to the development of the Asian region and create a better future for the people of Asia. And there are many more awards for him.

However, now that he was appointed Minister of Education, Nadiem Makarim continues to focus on improving education in Indonesia.

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