[2][3] He is only the second Health Minister not to graduate from a medical school, and the first since Mananti Sitompul.

[5] Budi started his career as IT staff at IBM Asia Pacific in Tokyo from 1988 until 1994.

[3][6] Starting in 2016, Budi began to enter the government as Special Staff to the Minister of State Owned Enterprises (2016-2017).

In his era, Inalum bought 51 percent of PT Freeport Indonesia.

[6] During the COVID-19 pandemic, his office set up a special unit to deal with flagging oxygen supplies for medical use.