Career
In 1991 he was runner-up to China"s Zhao Jianhua at the IBF World Championships in Copenhagen. Some estimated a crowd of at least 500,000. Others estimated more than a million Indonesians were lining the streets of the massive, sprawling city of Jakarta when Susi Susanti and Alan Budikusuma came home in August 1992 and received a two-hour parade.
They stood in an open car with leis and Olympic gold medals around their necks and inched toward the national monument in Merdeka square, on Sudirman, the main street, they could hardly move.
lieutenant was jammed with people all shouting congratulations to the new badminton hero"son Among his titles, all in singles, are the Thailand Open (1989, 1991), China Open (1991), German Open (1992), Indonesian Open (1993), World Cup (1993), and Malaysian Open(1995).