Mohamad Sadli

Who was Mohamad Sadli?

Mohamad Sadli was a leading Indonesian policy-maker and economist.

Sadli, as he was widely known as, was born in Sumedang, West Java. He first studied in the Hollandsch-Inlandsche School in Sumedang and Subang, and later moved to the Hogere Burger School in Semarang in Central Java. He then took university studies in the Technical Faculty, Gadjah Mada University, in Yogyakarta.

Between 1954 and 1956, Sadli worked towards his Master of Science in economics at MIT in the United States before proceeding to post-graduate studies in economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1956. He returned to Indonesia in 1957 where he became Director of the Economics and Management Institute at the University of Indonesia.