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Senior economist, govt critic Faisal Basri dies at 65
Faisal, who was well known for his vocal opposition of the government's recent economic policies from nickel downstreaming to deindustrialization, died at 3:50 a.m. on Thursday at Mayapada Hospital and was laid to rest at the Menteng Pulo Cemetery in South Jakarta.
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Senior economist Faisal Basri (Antara/Dewa Wiguna)
Senior economist and government critic Faisal Basri passed away in Jakarta on Thursday morning. He was 65.
Faisal died at 3:50 a.m. on Thursday at Mayapada Hospital in South Jakarta, according to a broadcast message obtained by The Jakarta Post. He had been receiving treatment at the hospital since Monday after suffering a heart attack, as reported by Kompas.
He was laid to rest at the Menteng Pulo Public Cemetery in South Jakarta on the same day.
He is survived by his wife Syafitri Nasution and three children.
Born in Bandung, West Java in 1959 under the name Faisal Batubara, he graduated from the University of Indonesia in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He got his master’s degree from Vanderbilt University in the United States in 1988.
Throughout his life, Faisal, who was a nephew of former vice president Adam Malik, mostly served as an economics lecturer at his alma mater in Depok, West Java. He taught several courses on economics and its intersection with politics and foreign affairs at the university’s School of Economics and Business.
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