Jusuf Kalla

Jusuf Kalla
Official portrait, 2014
10th & 12th Vice President of Indonesia
In office
20 October 2014  20 October 2019
PresidentJoko Widodo
Preceded byBoediono
Succeeded byMa'ruf Amin
In office
20 October 2004  20 October 2009
PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Preceded byHamzah Haz
Succeeded byBoediono
12th Chairman of the Indonesian
Red Cross Society
Assumed office
22 December 2009
Preceded byMar'ie Muhammad
8th General Chairman of the Golkar Party
In office
19 December 2004  9 October 2009
Preceded byAkbar Tandjung
Succeeded byAburizal Bakrie
12th Coordinating Minister for
People's Welfare
In office
10 August 2001  22 April 2004
PresidentMegawati Sukarnoputri
Preceded byBasri Hasanuddin
Succeeded by
18th Minister of Industry and Trade
In office
29 October 1999  24 August 2000
PresidentAbdurrahman Wahid
Preceded byRahardi Ramelan
Succeeded byLuhut Binsar Panjaitan
Personal details
Born
Muhammad Jusuf Kalla

(1942-05-15) 15 May 1942
Watampone, Japanese-occupied East Indies
Political partyGolkar
Spouse
Mufidah Mi'ad Saad
(m. 1967)
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • businessperson
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Muhammad Jusuf Kalla (listen; born 15 May 1942), commonly referred to by his initials JK, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who served as the 10th and 12th vice president of Indonesia, the only vice president in Indonesian history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (2004–2009 and 2014–2019). He was unsuccessful as Golkar's presidential nominee in the 2009 presidential election. Before Kalla declared himself as the running mate for Joko Widodo in the 2014 presidential election, a 2012 poll placed his popularity among likely voters in the top three contenders for the presidency and ahead of his own party's nominee Aburizal Bakrie.

Since 2009 Kalla serves as the chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross Society.