title: Arifin Siregar
text: # Arifin Siregar
  
  Arifin Mohamed Siregar (11 February 1934 – 23 September 2019) was an Indonesian banker and politician who served as Minister of Trade from 1988 to 1993, having previously been the Governor of Bank Indonesia from 1983 to 1988. He was born in Medan, and died, aged 85, in Jakarta.
  
  ## Education
  
  * Nederlandsche Economische Hogeschool, Rotterdam, Netherlands (1953–1956)
  * Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, West Germany (1958)
  * Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, West Germany (doctor, 1960)
  
  ## Honors
  
  ### Domestic honors
  
  * Indonesia:
     * Star of Mahaputera Adipradana (1987)
  
  ### Foreign honors
  
  * Germany:
     * Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1988)
  