Alwi Shihab

Alwi Shihab
Official portrait, c.2004
13th Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare
In office
21 October 2004  7 December 2005
PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Preceded byJusuf Kalla
Succeeded byAburizal Bakrie
14th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
26 October 1999  23 July 2001
PresidentAbdurrahman Wahid
Preceded byAli Alatas
Succeeded byHassan Wirajuda
Personal details
Born
Alwi Abdurrahman Shihab

(1946-08-19) 19 August 1946
Rappang, South Sulawesi
Political partyPKB
SpouseAshraf Shahab
Children3
Parents
Relatives

Alwi Abdurrahman Shihab (Arabic: علوي عبد الرحمن شهاب Alawī ʿAbd ar-Raḥman Šihāb) (born 19 August 1946) is an Indonesian politician and scholar of the interaction of Christian and Muslim communities who served as Indonesian Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare in 2004 to 2005 and Indonesian Foreign Minister from 1999 to 2001.