Adrianus Mooy, From the Island of Rote Telling His Story (Autobiography)

Judul	:	Adrianus Mooy, From the Island of Rote Telling His Story (Autobiography) My Life My Family My Journey
Penulis	:	Adrianus Mooy
Penerbit	:	Dian Rakyat
Bahasa	:	Inggris
Tahun Cetak	:	2016
Halaman	:	407
ISBN	:	978-979-078-299-0
Harga	:	Rp. 80.000
Status	:	Ada

From Rote, a tiny island that hardly appears on the world map, Adrianus Mooy began his life journey, a life full of unexpected twists and turns. He is a rare person, who has never applied for a job but has been applied for by jobs! Even the Secretary General of the United Nations requested him to take up the position of Under-Secretary-General/Executive Secretary of UN-ESCAP in Bangkok. This was after he had served as one of the principal drafters of Repelita at Bappenas, served for five years as Govenor of Bank Indonesia as well as being Indonesia’s Ambassador to the European Community based in Brussels. He feels himself to have been blessed in life, including in the beautiful girl whom he met in his student days, and who later became his beloved wife.

There are two epidodes in his life that he can never forget. The first was when God arranged it in such a way that he could not finish his Ph.D. program in the United States before 1965. If he had finished the doctoral degree program before 1965 and returned directly to Jogjakarta, he might have fallen victim to the G30S Communist coup attempt, as did some of this colleagues, who had returned earlier to Gajah Mada University and joined the Association of Indonesia Scholars, only to be captured and presumably killed. At that time the names of American graduated were high on Communist balcklist while those supporting the Communist Party were high on the military’s hit list.

The second incident that turned out to be a blessing in disguise was that his tenure as Governor of the central bank was only five years and not extended. If it had been extended, he might have been one of the three central bank governors who felt the brunts of the 1997/1998 monetary crisis, two of them werw dumped in jail.

Prof. Mooy belives that this was God’s way of providing a double protection to keep him away from danger. He built a harmonious and successful family, based on culture and spiritual values handed down from his father and mother in Rote, who taught him about the need to live a God-centered life and take good care of all blessings from God.

He advocates maximal development of talents, while trusting God to complete what is beyond human reach. His motto is “Do your best and let God do the rest.” A piece of exemplary advice from Prof. Mooy.

Though now over 80 years old, Prof. Mooy is still actively involved in various organizations, while sharing his life story. He realizes that the ‘luck’ and success in his life have not derived from his own strength and abilty, but from the grace of God, Who has been telling His story through the life of a person named Adrianus Mooy. It is for this reason that he chose as the title of his autobiography “ADRIANUS MOOY from the island of Rote – Telling HIS Story.”

Pitan Daslani

Editor