Syahril Sabirin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Syahril Sabirin

Indonesian businessman

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1943

Place of Birth: Bukittinggi, Sumatra, Indonesia

Profession: businessperson, economist

Nationality: Indonesia, Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Syahril Sabirin (born 14 October 1943 in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra) served as the Governor of Bank Indonesia from 1999 to 2003, succeeding Soedrajad Djiwandono.
Before joining Bank Indonesia, Syahril studied at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, graduating with an economics degree from the Faculty of Economics in the university. In 2000 he was arrested in a fraud scandal surrounding Bank Bali.
Sabirin had initially been sentenced to three years in prison in 2002, a sentence which the Supreme Court reduced to two years in 2009.