Fauzi Bowo
Fauzi Bowo Fauzi Bowo was the governor of Jakarta for the 2007â€"2012 term. He previously served as deputy governor. He has worked for the Jakarta administration since 1987 and was treasurer of the Golkar organization from 1993 to 1997. On 8 August 2007 he was elected governor of Jakarta, beating his only rival Adang Daradjatun 57.9% to 42.1% in the 1st ever election for the post. He was inaugurated on 7 October 2007. Having run a for 2nd term as governor in the 2012 gubernatorial election, he was defeated on 20 September 2012 after a second-round runoff by Joko Widodo. Fauzi Bowo , known as "Foke" to many Jakartans, was born in Jakarta to a wealthy landowning family. His father, Djohari bin Adiputro, was from Malang, East Java, and his mother, Nuraini binti Abdul Manaf, from Jakarta. After high school at Canisius College in Jakarta, Fauzi studied at the architecture faculty at the University of Indonesia from 1966 to 1967. There, he was involved in the Indonesian Stu...