Brodjonegoro, 48, has been a senior official in the Finance Ministry since 2011, first heading its fiscal policy office and promoted to vice minister in 2013.

His late father was energy and education minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Brodjonegoro was director-general of the Islamic Development Bank's research and training institute and is a former dean of the economics faculty at the University of Indonesia.

Widodo said Brodjonegoro is an expert in fiscal decentralization and poverty eradication.

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