[6] His father, Djohari bin Adiputro, was a Javanese from Malang, East Java while his mother, Nuraini binti Abdul Manaf, was an ethnic Betawi from Jakarta.

After completing his high school education at the Canisius College in Jakarta, Fauzi studied at the architecture faculty at the University of Indonesia from 1967 to 1969.

[7] In 1969, he won a scholarship to study in West Germany, where he was a student of town planning at the Technical University of Brunswick, graduating in 1977.

With the support of 19 political parties, including Golkar, PDI-P and PPP, he stood for the governorship in 2007 with Prijanto as his running mate.

Fauzi defeated his opponent Adang Daradjatun (running with Dani Anwar as candidate for deputy governor) in Jakarta's first gubernatorial election on 8 August by 57.9% to 42.1% of the vote.

One response to the problem was a plan (2011) to establish a Greater Jakarta Transportation Authority to coordinate the implementation of the numerous proposals that had been made to improve the traffic challenges.

Anti-smoking regulations introduced by Fauzi in 2011 banned people from smoking inside public buildings and certain other places.