Arcandra Tahar Dismissed by Jokowi as Indonesian Minister

Arcandra Tahar might be the first US passport holder who became Indonesian minister, well for only 20 days. Born in Padang city, West Sumatra province (propinsi Sumatera Barat), Arcandra Tahar last hold a prestigious position in Houston based oil-petroleum company as President. In July 2016, Arcandra appointed by Indonesian president Jokowi as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources. A move that typical by Jokowi in appointed the talented individu in his cabinet.

However, soon Arcandra face the polemic as he found to hold United States of America passport. The US passport believe to issued to Arcandra in year 2012. As Indonesia did not applied bi-nationality citizenship, the US passport immediately believe to cancel the Indonesian passport. In several source, Arcandra Tahar reported to already picked to withstand his Indonesian citizenship.

Since the polemic become too strong, Jokowi finally dismiss Arcandra Tahar as Energy and Mineral Resources Minister in the evening of August 15th, 2016. Arcandra Tahar will no longer hold the minster post started Agustus 16, 2016. His position will temporary fill in by coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan.

The polemic had since become social media sensation because Arcandra Tahar is indeed a worthy person to fill the Energy Resources. Dr. Tahar, who is expert in Oil knowledge, supported by many Indonesian netizen because his background is extra ordinary high profile. A common defender come up with a rhetoric that Dr. Tahar willing to sacrifice his high profile company president position with big salary just to became Indonesian minister, who salary just top around IDR 40 millions, (approx. USD 3800).

The LinkedIn profile that shown Arcandra Tahar resume :

Dr. Tahar is president at Petroneering in Houston, a technology development and engineering company focused on design and development of more durable, effective, and safe offshore platforms. He has over fourteen years of experience in the field of hydrodynamics and offshore engineering. He has developed his specialized expertise through his extensive schooling and through practical experience in the industry. He has been working with the inventors of the floating and compliant drilling and production system, Spar, TLP, Compliant Tower, Buoyant Tower and Multi Colum Floater for the last 13 years. The TLP and Spar products alone represent the vast majority of all the combined floating drilling and production systems operational in the world today. Dr. Tahar awarded 3 offshore related patents and the co-author of well recognized and industry standard hydrodynamics program HARP/CHARM3D. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. He received his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M Universities in 2001. Dr. Tahar was past vice chairman of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Society, Houston Chapter.
Experience

•     President    Petroneering    October 2013 – Present (2 years 11 months)
•     Principal    Horton Wison Deepwater, Inc    October 2009 – October 2013 (4 years 1 month)
•     Principal, Naval Architecture    Principal and President Asia Pacific    AGR Deepwater Development System, Inc    May 2007 – October 2009 (2 years 6 months)
•     Hydrodynamics Lead    FloaTEC LLC    February 2006 – April 2007 (1 year 3 months)
•     Research Specialist    Technip Offshore, Inc. / CSO / Aker    August 2001 – February 2006 (4 years 7 months)    Research Assistant    Offshore Technology Research Center    May 1997 – August 2001 (4 years 4 months)
•     Technical Advisor    Noble Denton, Inc    January 2000 – May 2000 (5 months)

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