Dahlan Iskan

Dahlan Iskan born in Magetan - East Java on August 17, 1951. He grew up in a rural environment with deprivation conditions. Her parents do not remember how date Dahlan born. Dahlan finally chose on 17 August for reasons easy to remember because that date coincided with the commemoration of Indonesian independence. Dahlan Iskan once wrote a book called Change Hearts in 2008. This book is about the experience Dahlan Iskan in liver transplant operations in China.

Dahlan Iskan is CEO of Jawa Pos newspaper and Jawa Pos Group, based in Surabaya. He is a Director of PLN from the date of December 23, 2009. On October 19, 2011, relating to the reshuffling of the United Indonesia Cabinet II, Dahlan Iskan was appointed as Minister of State-Owned Enterprises  replaces Mustafa Abubakar.

Dahlan Iskan's career began as a candidate for a small newspaper reporter in Samarinda, East Kalimantan in 1975. In 1976, he became a journalist for Tempo magazine and since 1982, he led the Jawa Pos newspaper today.

Dahlan Iskan is a figure that makes the Jawa Post, who was near death with a circulation of 6000 ekslempar, within 5 years of being a newspaper with a circulation of 300,000 copies. Five years later formed Jawa Pos News Network (JPNN), one of the biggest newspaper network in Indonesia, which has 134 newspapers, tabloids, and magazines, as well as 40 network printing in Indonesia. In 1997 he successfully established Graha Pena, one of the skyscrapers in Surabaya and later that same building in Jakarta. In 2002, he founded a local TV station JTV in Surabaya, Batam TV followed in Batam and Riau TV in Pekanbaru. Since early 2009, Dahlan was a Commissioner of PT Fangbian Iskan Corporindo (FIC), which will begin construction of Submarine Cable Communication Connection (SKKL) this summer. SKKL will connect Surabaya in Indonesia and Hong Kong, with a length of 4300 kilometers of optical fiber.

Since late 2009, Dahlan was appointed Director of PLN replaces Fahmi Mochtar, because of his leadership, frequent power interruptions in jakarta. Since lead PLN Dahlan iskan make new breakthrough free programs install electricity throughout indonesia for 6 months. This movement is called breakthrough connection million yesterday. Dahlan also plans to build 100 plts in the Islands in 2011. Earlier, the year 2010 PLN has managed to build the PLTS on the islands of eastern Indonesia 5, Banda Island, Manado, Bunaken Derawan Kaltim, South Sulawesi, South-East, and Citrawangan.

On October 17, 2011, Dahlan was appointed as the successor of a Minister of State who suffer from pain. Dahlan did not think that she was appointed Minister of BUMN, because he is still a Director of PLN and is still a passion for reform at PLN

Dahlan implement some programs that will run in the management of SOEs. The main program is an asset restructuring and downsizing (depreciation amount) a business entity. About the restructuring is still awaiting approval from the Minister of Finance.

Some performance highlighted. Dahlan failed to bring the five state-owned companies to release IPO (initial public offering / IPO) on the stock exchange. But thanks to his leadership, the state assessed net of corruption by the public which is the performance and success to build a state. He is also actively supporting the national car program berpenggerak electricity. However, on January 5, 2013, he had an accident while driving an electric car Tucuxi in the Tawangmangu , East Java. Dahlan Iskan survived, but his car was badly damaged.

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