Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

After graduating, Yudhoyono joined the Army Strategic Reserve (Kostrad) and became a platoon commander in the 330th Airborne Battalion.

Aside from leading his troops, Yudhoyono was also tasked with giving the battalion soldiers lessons on general knowledge and English.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 9 September 1949), commonly referred to as SBY, is an Indonesian politician and retired army general who served as the sixth president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014.

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.

Yudhoyono planned to enlist after graduating from high school in 1968; however, he missed the registration period.

Young Yudhoyono then became a student under the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) in Surabaya before entering the Vocational Education Development Center in Malang, East Java.

There, he was able to prepare everything for the next phase of his education at the military academy AKABRI.

Yudhoyono officially entered AKABRI in 1970 after passing the test in Bandung.

He graduated from AKABRI as second lieutenant in 1973, and as the best graduate of the year, received the prestigious Adhi Makayasa medal from President Suharto.

Yudhoyono successfully negotiated a deal that ended the Aceh Insurgency, an Insurgency lasted from 1976 to 2005.

As a result, he was given the title "Father of Peace".

Yudhoyono also studied in the United States, where he received his master's degree in Business Management from Webster University in 1991.

His father was a Javanese man named Raden Soekotjo (1925 – 4 August 2001), whose lineage can be traced to Hamengkubuwono II, while his mother was a Javanese woman named Siti Habibah (30 June 1932 – 30 August 2019).

Yudhoyono had wanted to join the army since he was a child.

In school, he developed a reputation as an academic achiever, excelling in writing poems, short stories, and play-acting.

Yudhoyono was also talented in music and sport, reflected when he and his friends established a volleyball club called Klub Rajawali and a band called Gaya Teruna.

When he was in fifth grade, Yudhoyono visited the Indonesian Armed Forces Academy (AKABRI).

After seeing the soldiers training there and perhaps inspired by his own father's career, Yudhoyono became determined to join the Indonesian Armed Forces and become a soldier.

Yudhoyono won the 2004 presidential election—the first direct presidential election in Indonesia, defeating incumbent president Megawati Sukarnoputri.

He was sworn into office on 20 October 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as vice-president.

He subsequently earned PhD in agricultural economics from the Bogor Agricultural University on 3 October 2004, two days before his presidential victory was announced.

His dissertation was entitled The Rural and Agricultural Development as an Effort to Alleviate Poverty and Unemployment: a political economic analysis of fiscal policy.

He was also awarded two honorary doctorates in 2005 in the fields, respectively, of law from his alma mater, Webster University, and in political science from Thammasat University in Thailand.

He ran for re-election in 2009 with Boediono as his running mate, and won with an outright majority of the votes in the first round of balloting; he was sworn in for a second term on 20 October 2009.

During his tenure as president, Indonesia participated in many world peace missions, both at the national and international levels.

A member of the Democratic Party of Indonesia, he served as the 4th leader of the Democratic Party from 2014 until 2020, 8th and 10th Coordinating Minister of Politics and Security Affairs of Indonesia from 2000 until 2001, and again from 2001 until 2004.

He also served as the president of the Assembly and chair of the Council of the Global Green Growth Institute.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (Champions of the Earth) in 2014.

The name Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is of Javanese origins, with Sanskrit roots.

Susilo comes from the words su-, meaning "good" and -sila, meaning "behaviour, conduct or moral".

Bambang is a traditional male name in Javanese, meaning "knight".

While Yudhoyono comes from the words yuddha, meaning "battle, fight"; and yana, meaning "journey".

Thus his full name roughly translates to "well behaved knight on a war mission".

The name "Yudhoyono" is not an inherited surname; most Javanese do not have surnames.

Rather, he chose it for his military name-tag, and it is how he is referred to abroad.

His children and grandchildren go by the name "Yudhoyono", and in formal meetings and functions he is addressed as Dr. Yudhoyono.

In Indonesia, he is usually referred to and widely known as "SBY".

On 12 June 2014, he earned professor degree from Defense University of Indonesia in National Defense Science.

Yudhoyono spent three years at AKABRI and became the commander of the Cadet Corps Division there.

He was also the former chairman of ASEAN due to Indonesia's hosting of the 18th and 19th ASEAN Summits.