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Early life and education

Tasrif attended primary and secondary schools in

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. He first (1959) entered the Saint Fransikus (

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) primary school in

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run by th
Yayasan St. Fransiskus
(Francis of Assisi Foundation) in

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. Later (1965-1968) he attended the nearby Kanisius middle school before entering senior high school in

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in th
Yayasan Pendidikan Harapan
(Hope for Education Foundation). Tasrif studied

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at the

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, graduating in 1977. He is of

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descent.

Career

Tasrif was the business director of the construction and engineering firm between 1995 and 2001, before becoming president director of the fertilizer company

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between 2001 and 2010. He then moved to the state-owned . He led the firm until 2015. On 13 March 2017, Tasrif was appointed as Indonesia's Ambassador to

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and

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. Tasrif had previously worked in Japan for two years starting in 1986 as an engineer. During this period, he was involved in the negotiations for a $20bn contract for a

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block with Japanese firm

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. On 23 October 2019, he was appointed as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources. On 4 February 2022, Tasrif was temporarily replaced with

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as ''ad interim'' minister due to a

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infection.

References

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