Nadiem Makarim

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Nadiem Makarim
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Official portrait, 2021
1st Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology
In office
28 April 2021 –20 October 2024
Succeeded by
Relatives Hamid Algadri (grandfather)
Education United World College of Southeast Asia, Singapore
Alma mater
Occupation
Known forCo-founder of Gojek

Nadiem Anwar Makarim (born 4 July 1984) is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is the only minister of education, culture, research, and technology of Indonesia, served from 2021 until 2024. [1]

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Prior to entering politics, in 2010, he founded Gojek, Indonesia's first startup valued over US$10 billion. [2] In October 2019, he was appointed as Minister of Education and Culture by President Joko Widodo on his second term's cabinet and subsequently resigned from his post at Gojek. [3] [4]

Early life and education

Nadiem was born in Singapore on 4 July 1984, to Indonesian parents Nono Anwar Makarim and Atika Algadri. His father is an activist, lawyer and is of Minangkabau-Arabian descent. His maternal grandfather is Hamid Algadri. He has two sisters, Hana Makarim, and Rayya Makarim known as a filmmaker. He married Franka Franklin and they have three children. [5]

Nadiem attended high school in Jakarta and United World College of Southeast Asia (UWC SEA), Singapore, and then went to Brown University for a BA in International Relations. He did his MBA at Harvard Business School. [6] [7]

Business career

Nadiem Anwar Makarim at the World Economic Forum. Nadiem Makarim.jpg
Nadiem Anwar Makarim at the World Economic Forum.

Early career

After graduating from Brown University in 2006, Nadiem decided to come back home to Indonesia and worked at McKinsey & Company. Nadiem worked as a McKinsey consultant for 3 years. [8]

Nadiem started his career at McKinsey & Company as management consultant in Jakarta. He left to co-found Zalora, an online fashion shop, then left Zalora to become Chief Innovation Officer at Kartuku, a payment service provider.

Zalora

Nadiem became co-founder and managing director for Zalora Indonesia in 2011. In 2012, Nadiem made the decision to leave Zalora to focus on building his own startup, including Gojek, which at that time had 15 employees and 450 drivers. He claims to have learned enough from Zalora, which was his main goal in accepting the position in the first place. In Zalora, Nadiem had the chance to build a mega startup and work with some of the best talents across the region. [9]

Kartuku

After leaving Zalora and while developing Gojek, Nadiem also worked as a chief innovation officer of Kartuku. [10] In the early days, Kartuku didn't have any competition in cashless payment solutions in Indonesia. [9] Kartuku was then acquired by Gojek to strengthen GoPay. [11]

Gojek

In 2010 Nadiem created Gojek, which is today a decacorn company with a valuation of over US$10 billion. [12] Gojek was first established as a call centre, offering only courier delivery and two-wheeled ride-hailing services. Today, Gojek has transformed into a super app, providing more than 20 services, ranging from transportation, food delivery, groceries, massage, house cleaning, logistics to a cashless digital payment platform called GoPay. [11]

Nadiem often uses a motorcycle taxi, known in Indonesia as an ojek. He saw this as a business opportunity and developed it into Gojek, which is founded in 2010. [13] [14]

Gojek was well received, and eventually received US$1,3 billion funding from investors, in a 2018-round led by Alphabet Inc's Google, JD.com Inc and Tencent Holdings. It thereby became the first Indonesian unicorn. [15] By 2019, the firm was worth up to US$10 billion [16]

On 21 October 2019, Gojek announced that Nadiem would leave the company to join president-elect Jokowi's Onward Indonesia Cabinet. His position as CEO was replaced by Gojek group president Andre Soelistyo and Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi as co-CEOs. [17] On the second reshuffle of the cabinet, announced at 28 April 2021, he was appointed as the first holder of Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. [18]

World Economic Forum

He is part of the WEF as a global shaper and has direct control over cultural matters

Political career

Cabinet minister

Under Nadiem's tenure as Minister of Education and Culture, a decree prohibiting Indonesian schools from enforcing rules mandating the wearing of religious attire was signed into effect on 3 February 2021. Schools were given 30 days to repeal any rules making the wearing of religious attire compulsory before they would face sanctions. Nadiem supported the ban, stating that whether a person should wear religious clothing is "an individual's right… it is not the school's decision." [19]

Awards

International organizations

With Melinda Gates and the Minister of Finance of Indonesia, Sri Mulyani, Nadiem served as one of the commissioners of Pathways for Prosperity for Technology and Inclusive Development that focuses on helping developing countries to adapt with various new digital innovations that change the working culture. [27]

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Business positions
Preceded by
Position established
 Chief Executive Officer of Gojek
2010–2019		Succeeded by
Kevin Aluwi and
Andre Soelistyo
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Preceded by Minister of Education and Culture
2019–2021		Succeeded by
Himself
as Minister of Education, Culture,
Research, and Technology
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