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Veteran journalist Fikri Jufri dies at age 88
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Fikri Jufri smiles at the camera in this file photo. (JP/J. Adiguna)
Fikri Jufri, one of Indonesia’s most celebrated journalists, died in Jakarta on Thursday at the age of 88.
Fikri's family said in a statement that he died at around 9 a.m. He was laid to rest at the city’s Karet Bivak public cemetery on the same day.
He is survived by his three children.
Fikri died on the same day that Tempo, which he had helped found in 1971, celebrated its 54th anniversary.
Former Tempo chief editor Wahyu Muryadi said that when he was a cub reporter in 1989, Fikri was his editor on Tempo’s business and economics desk.
“I knew and learned so much from him since 1989 when I was posted in Jakarta,” he told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
