Rusli Habibie

Rusli Habibie
Rusli Habibie in 2014
Governor of Gorontalo
In office
16 January 2012  12 May 2022
Preceded byGusnar Ismail
Succeeded byHamka Hendra Noer (acting)
Personal details
Born (1963-06-06) 6 June 1963
North Gorontalo Regency, Gorontalo, Indonesia
CitizenshipIndonesian
Political partyGolkar

Rusli Habibie is an Indonesian politician and former governor of Gorontalo. Habibie requested that if schoolteachers smoke on school grounds, then people should send him photos of the offender via WhatsApp so he can reassign them to schools in more remote areas of the province as punishment.

Habibie's election was significant due to questions over his legal eligibility. He had previously been convicted of defamation of the province's former police chief and was still on probation at the time of the election. He is the nephew of the third president of Indonesia, B.J. Habibie.