President inaugurates 20 new envoys

Thursday, 21 January 2010

The Jakarta Post

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono inaugurated here Wednesday 20 new ambassadors who will serve in a number of countries in Asia, Europe, North and Latin America and Africa.

Three of the new envoys are non-career diplomats, including Indonesian Ambassador to Switzerland Djoko Susilo, who is a former politician from the National Mandate Party (PAN), and Indonesian Ambassador to Morocco Tosari Widjaja, who is from the United Development Party (PPP).

The two were previously members of the House of Representatives’ Commission I overseeing defense and foreign affairs.

The other non-career diplomat is the Ambassador to Romania Marianna Sutadi, who was the deputy chief for judicial affairs at the Supreme Court. 

Djoko was initially tipped to take up the ambassadorial job in Romania, but he swapped his posting with Marianna’s following their selection test at the House last year.

The House approved 22 new ambassadors altogether, but two of them will be installed later.  Some career diplomats will serve their second term as ambassadors. Senior diplomat Imron Cotan, the Foreign Ministry’s secretary-general and former ambassador to Australia, was installed as the ambassador to China, while Arthauli, head of policy and development studies at the Foreign Ministry, was previously the ambassador to Vietnam.

 

Names of the new ambassadors                  New post and previous position

1. Imron Cotan                             

China & Mongolia - Foreign Ministry’s secretary-general

2. Handriyo Kusumo Priyo               

Brunei - director general for protocol and consular affairs

3. Soehardjono Sastromihardjo       

Cambodia - director for information and media

4. Yohanes Kristiarto Legowo          

The Philippines - director for East Asia affairs

5. Kria Fahmi Pasaribu                   

Laos - consul general in Houston

6. Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady         

Spain - deputy representative to the UN in New York

7. Eddy Poerwana Wangsadihardja  

Zimbabwe -  Foreign Ministry’s director for legal affairs

8. RA Esti Andayani                       

Norway - Foreign Ministry’s technical cooperation director

9. Dienne Hardianti Moehario         

Canada - Foreign Ministry’s inspector general

10. Gatot Abdullah Mansyur             

Saudi Arabia - consul general in Jeddah

11. Marianna Sutadi                        

Romania and Moldova - Supreme Court’s justice

12. Yosef Berty Fernandez               

Peru & Bolivia - head of border affairs in Papua

13. Djoko Susilo                             

Switzerland & Liechtenstein - lawmaker

14. I Gede Ngurah Swajaya              

Representative for ASEAN - ambassador to Cambodia

15. I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja   

Austria, UN and Slovenia - deputy permanent representative for the United Nations in Geneva                                                                                          

16. M. Asruchin                           

Uzbekistan-Foreign Ministry’s director for South and  Central Asia affairs                                                                              

17. Aidil Chandra Salim               

Fiji - director for Middle East affairs

18. H. Tosari Widjaja                    

Morocco - lawmaker

19. Sjahril Sabaruddin                 

South Africa - ambassador for Uzbekistan

20. Albert Matondang                 

Portugal - deputy at the office of the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs

 

    

 
 
 


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