Sri Adiningsih

Sri Adiningsih (11 December 196017 June 2023) was an Indonesian professor of economics at the Gadjah Mada University who served as the chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Council from 19 January 2015 to 20 October 2019. She had also served as a member of the People's Consultative Assembly ad hoc expert team in 2001 and became the secretary of the Constitutional Commission.

Early life and education Sri Adiningsih was born on 11 December 1960 in Surakarta as the eldest child of five. Her grandfather was a former Defenders of the Homeland soldier, a paramilitary organization established during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. Her father, Daswadi, died while she was in the third grade of elementary school, and Sri had to live with her mother, Sri Lulut, who managed a grocery store alone. Sri spent most of her childhood in Surakarta and met to-be president Joko Widodo while studying at the 1st Surakarta State Junior High School.

Upon completing high school, Sri Adiningsih applied to the Gadjah Mada University (UGM) and was accepted in both the medicine and economics faculty. Her grandfather recommended her to pick economics. She entered the university in 1980 and joined the student senate and marching band.

Sri graduated in December 1985 with the cum laude distinction Sri was made a full professor in economics by UGM on 19 August 2013. She was a member of the American Economic Association On another occasion, Sri recommended the government to "create policies that are favorable to fostering new investments" during the severe unemployment crisis in 2002. In 2011, Sri was recommended by People's Consultative Assembly (MPR, Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat) speaker Taufiq Kiemas to become a minister in the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono administration.

Sri was involved in the private sector. She was the adviser and principal economist for Exim Securities in 1997, head of the Bank Danamon audit commission from 2002 until 2003, and commissioner for the Indosat telecommunications corporation from 2002 until 2005. She was installed as member on 19 January and was selected as its chairperson on 27 January. Sri's appointment to the council was linked to her involvement in assisting Megawati Sukarnoputri—the chairman of Joko Widodo's PDIP party—in economic affairs during her presidential campaign. She was replaced by Wiranto on 13 December 2019.

Personal life and death Sri married Kunta Setiaji, a physician from UGM, in 1985. Their only child, Stri Nariswari Setiaji, worked as an expert staff in the Presidential Advisory Council and consultant to several overseas corporations.

Sri died on the evening of 17 June 2023 at the Sardjito Hospital in Yogyakarta. She was 62. Various officials, such as finance minister Sri Mulyani, public works minister Budi Karya Sumadi, former vice president Boediono, former MPR speaker Sidarto Danusubroto, and UGM's dean of economics and business Didi Achjari, all delivered their condolences. She was interred at the Gunung Sempu Hill Memorial Park in Bantul a day after her death.