HENRI-CLAUDE de Bettignies was in Singapore when he noticed Jusuf Kalla in a newspaper. His former student at the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) had been elected Vice President of Indonesia. He quickly packed his things and flew to Jakarta.

Kalla easily recalled how de Bettignies showed up in his guestroom just two days after moving to Jl. Diponegoro. “He was my first foreign guest after becoming Vice President,”