Kwik Kian Gie

Kwik Kian Gie was the Indonesian Coordinating Minister of Economics and Finance from 1999–2000, and Minister of National Development Planning from 2001-2004. He is a prominent Indonesian economist who often wrote columns in the newspaper KOMPAS criticizing the policies of the Suharto administration in the late 1980s and 1990s. But a decades later he also spoke on one of Indonesia's national television, no Indonesian leader who dared to argue but Sukarno, Suharto and Gus Dur. He is well known for being outspoken and is regarded as an honest politician and economist although his writings are sometimes considered controversial.