List of Famous people born in Indonesia
Alex Abbad
Alex Abdullah Abbad, sometimes known as Alex Abbad, is an Indonesian actor, Poet, Host, Musician, Visual Artist, and Music Producer, with two decades of experience in the Creative and Entertainment Industry.
Rezaldi Hehanusa
Muhammad Rezaldi Hehanusa is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Liga 1 club Persija Jakarta and the Indonesia national team.
Irwansyah
Irwansyah is an Indonesian actor and singer. Irwansyah released his first solo album, Soliter, in 2008.
Ade Supandi
Ade Supandi is a retired admiral in the Indonesian Navy who formerly served as its chief of staff. Previously, he had been the General Chief of Staff of the Indonesian National Armed Forces and the commander of the navy's eastern fleet.
Azka Fauzi
Ikhwan Azka Fauzi Wibowo, commonly known as Azka Fauzi, is an Indonesian professional footballer. Mainly a forward, he can also play as a winger on both flanks.
Dira Sugandi
Dira Yulianti Sugandi is an Indonesian singer and actress. She was born in Bandung, West Java on July 29, 1979 into a family with a strong singing tradition. She began her singing career as a vocal performance major in the Music Department at Pelita Harapan, earning her bachelor's degree in 2006. She has performed with many Indonesian groups and musicians, such as SOULMATE, Maestro Big Band, Rieka Roslan, SOVA, Imam Praz Quartet, ARAB Jazz, and the Pelita Harapan University Big Band and with foreign musicians such as Incognito in Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Medan (2002) and in Bali, Singapore, Jakarta (2006) and with Keith Martin in Bandung (2005), and with the Yellowjackets in Jakarta and Bandung (2006). In 2009, she was awarded the Indonesian Young Jazz Talent Award at the Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival where she sang a song called Lucky in a duet with American singer, Jason Mraz.
Puti Kaisar-Mihara
Puti Kaisar-Mihara is an Austrian martial artist and model of Indonesian origin. Her father Mihar Walk Tan Pangeran is Minangkabau. Puti Mihara was born in Padang, but moved at the age of three with her father from Indonesia to Vienna, where she grew up. A silat student since the age of 3-4, Mihara holds the honorary title of Pendekar and works as the coach at the Pandeka Mihar Institute in Vienna. She raised to prominence with her leading role in Tatort: Die Kunst des Krieges (2016). Also, she plays a role in the Austrian television series "Vorstadtweiber."
Rasjidi
Prof. DR.H. Mohamad Rasjidi was a Minister of Religious Affairs of Indonesia at the First Sjahrir Cabinet and Second Sjahrir Cabinet. He was a close friend of Alm. Faisal of Saudi Arabia Contribution Services - His services for the Republic of Indonesia is priceless of International Education classes. Cairo scholar first of Indonesian Students to Value A. Simple, honest and trustworthy.
Muchdi Purwoprandjono
Muchdi Purwopranjono is an Indonesian politician and former major general who served briefly as chief of the Indonesian Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) and was former deputy head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN). He was relieved of command duties in 1998 after the fall of Soeharto and was subsequently deemed responsible for abductions of pro-democracy activists. In 2008, he was acquitted of commissioning and assisting in the 2004 assassination of human rights campaigner Munir, following a trial deemed flawed by human rights organizations. He is presently the leader of a breakaway faction of Tommy Soeharto’s Berkarya Party and his leadership is recognized by the government.
Wikana
Wikana was an Indonesian minister and independence leader. He was one of the youths who forced Sukarno and Hatta to declare independence immediately after the surrender of the Japanese. He was the first Indonesian Minister of Youth and Sport. He was a member of the Indonesian Communist Party. Sometime after the coup d'état attempt, he was arrested and went missing.