In 1998, Indonesia President B. J. Habibie appointed Durin to his Development Reform Cabinet as State Minister of Agrarian Affairs.

[1] Durin was born in Nagari Jaho, located in Padang Panjang, Tanah Datar Regency, West Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) on 15 January 1935.

[1] Durin served as the Mayor of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, for two consecutive terms from 1971 until 1983.

In 1998, Durin was appointed Minister of Agrarian Affairs within the Development Reform Cabinet of President B. J.

Hasan Basri Durin died at a private hospital in Pancoran, South Jakarta, on 9 July 2016.