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Wiranto
Wiranto (born 4 April 1947) is an Indonesian politician and retired army general, who is serving as the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council, since December 2019. Previously, he was the Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces from February 1998 to October 1999 during Indonesia's transition from authoritarian rule to democracy, he ran unsuccessfully for President of Indonesia in 2004 Indonesian presidential election, 2004 and for the vice-presidency in 2009 Indonesian presidential election, 2009. On 27 July 2016, Wiranto was appointed Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs (Indonesia), Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, replacing Luhut Binsar Panjaitan. Wiranto played a significant role in facilitating severe human rights violations by the Indonesian army and Jakarta-backed militias, during Indonesia's withdrawal from the occupied territory of East Timor in 1999. Both the United Nations and domestic groups have gat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Indonesian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on 5 July and 20 September 2004. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held, in which Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeated Megawati Sukarnoputri and was elected President of Indonesia, president. They were the first Direct election, direct presidential elections in the history of Indonesia; prior to a 2002 amendment to the Constitution of Indonesia, both the president and Vice President of Indonesia, vice president had been elected by the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR). Under the new amendment, a candidate pair is elected into office after receiving more than 50% of the vote nationally with at least 20% of the vote in more than half of the provinces of Indonesia. If no pair receives the number of votes required, the election will continue into the second round with the pairs receiving the highest and second-highest number of votes. Further regulations set by the General Elections Commission (KPU) state tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Indonesian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on 8 July 2009. The elections returned a President of Indonesia, president and Vice President of Indonesia, vice president for the 2009–2014 term. Incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, elected with a 20% margin in the 2004 election, sought a second term against former President Megawati Sukarnoputri in a rematch of the 2004 election, as well as incumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla. Securing a majority of the votes in a landslide victory in the first round, Yudhoyono was re-elected without the need to proceed to a second round. Yudhoyono was officially declared the victor of the election on 23 July 2009, by the General Election Commission (KPU). At the time of his re-election victory, Yudhoyono, with nearly 74 million votes in his favour, held the record for the List of Indonesian presidential candidates by number of votes received, highest number of votes for a single person in any democratic election in history, surpassing B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Conscience Party
The People's Conscience Party (), better known by its abbreviation, Hanura, is a political party in Indonesia. It was established following a meeting in Jakarta on 13–14 December 2006 and first headed by former Indonesian National Armed Forces commander Wiranto. The party lost its seats in the Hosue of Representatives (DPR) after a poor performance in the 2019 general election. Background After being eliminated in the first round of the 2004 Indonesian presidential election, Wiranto was "traumatized" by his defeat and decided not to run for the presidency without his own political vehicle. He resigned from Golkar Party in 2006 and established Hanura, targeting voters who had supported him in 2004. The party conducted a door-to-door grassroots campaign. The basis of its support is in West Java, Gorontalo, South Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, West Nusa Tenggara and Bali The party's target in the 2009 elections was 15 percent of the vote. The result of the Indonesian legislative e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golkar
The Party of Functional Groups (), often known by its abbreviation Golkar, is a Centre politics, centre to Centre-right politics, centre-right big tent secular nationalist political parties in Indonesia, political party in Indonesia. Founded in 1964 as the Joint Secretariat of Functional Groups (, Sekber Golkar), it is the oldest extant political party in Indonesia. It first participated in national elections in 1971 Indonesian legislative election, 1971 as Functional Groups. Since 2009 Indonesian legislative election, 2009, it has been the second-largest party in the House of Representatives (Indonesia), House of Representatives (DPR), having won 102 seats in the 2024 Indonesian general election, latest election. Golkar was the dominant-party system, ruling political group during the New Order (Indonesia), New Order government of Suharto from 1971 to 1999, when it was required to become a political party in order to contest elections. In the 1999 Indonesian legislative election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdurrahman Wahid
Abdurrahman Wahid ( ; né ad-Dakhil, 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), more colloquially known as Gus Dur (), was an Indonesian politician and Islam in Indonesia, Islamic Kyai, religious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his 1999 Indonesian presidential election, election in 1999 until he was Impeachment of Abdurrahman Wahid, removed from office in 2001. A long time leader within the Nahdlatul Ulama organization, he was the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). He was the son of Ministry of Religious Affairs (Indonesia), Minister of Religious Affairs Wahid Hasyim, and the grandson of Nahdatul Ulama founder Hasyim Asy'ari. Due to a visual impairment caused by glaucoma, he was blind in the left eye and partially blind in his right eye. He was the first (and to date only) president of Indonesia to have had physical disabilities. Wahid was instrumental in lifting the ban on Chinese New Year (). Until 1998, the spiritual practice to celebrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suharto
Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian Officer (armed forces), military officer and politician, and dictator, who was the second and longest serving president of Indonesia, serving from 1967 to 1998. His 32 years rule, characterised as authoritarian and kleptocratic, was marked by widespread corruption, political repression, and human rights abuses. Suharto's regime Fall of Suharto, ultimately collapsed in 1998 amid May 1998 riots of Indonesia, mass protests, violent unrest, and the fallout of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, leading to his resignation. Suharto was born in Kemusuk, near the city of Yogyakarta, during the Dutch East Indies, Dutch colonial era. He grew up in humble circumstances. His Javanese people, Javanese Muslim parents divorced not long after his birth, and he lived with foster parents for much of his childhood. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Japanese occupation, Suharto served in the Japanese-organized Indones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidential Advisory Council
Presidential Advisory Council (; abbreviated as ''Wantimpres'') is a non-structural government agency that serves as an advisory council for the President of Indonesia. The council was formed in 2007 during the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and is modelled after the former constitutional Supreme Advisory Council (''Dewan Pertimbangan Agung'') that was disbanded in 2003. Legal basis Article 16 of the Constitution of Indonesia authorises the president to establish an advisory council to support its daily administration. Indonesian Act No.19/2006 provides the legal basis for the advisory council. The law specifies the powers and authorities of the council, as well as its membership, remunerations, and working procedures. Functions The main function of the advisory council is to advise the president on its daily administration. Advice to the president could be made on personal basis, or as the council in the whole. Members of the advisory council are expected to brief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oesman Sapta Odang
Oesman Sapta Odang (born 18 August 1950) is an Indonesian politician of the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), who served as the speaker of the Regional Representative Council and deputy speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly between 2014 and 2019. He had also served in the latter position between 2002 and 2004. Originating from the town of Sukadana in West Kalimantan, he built a career as a businessman before entering politics, founding the Regional Unity Party and later joining Hanura, where he has served as chairman since December 2016. Personal life Oesman, often nicknamed OSO, was born in the town of Sukadana in West Kalimantan province on 18 August 1950 to parents from other parts of Indonesia. His father Odang originated from Palopo while his mother Asnah Hamid was of Minang descent, originating from Solok. As a child, he worked on rubber plantations and as a cigarette vendor. He did not complete formal education, and only earned his high school degree through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juwono Sudarsono
Juwono Sudarsono (born Banjar Ciamis, West Java; 5 March 1942) is an Indonesian former diplomat and the author of works on political science and international relations. He was educated at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta ( B.A., M.S.); The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands; the University of California, Berkeley, USA ( M.A.); and the London School of Economics, UK ( Ph.D.). He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Indonesia. He is the son of Sudarsono, who was Minister of Home Affairs and Minister for Social Affairs in the late 1940s in the Second Sjahrir Cabinet. He served as head of the Department of International Relations and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia (1985–1994) and taught at The School of Public and International Affairs, Columbia University, New York City in 1986–87. In public service, Juwono Sudarsono has served as Vice Governor of The National Defence College (Lemhann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Adiningsih
Sri Adiningsih (11 December 196017 June 2023) was an Indonesian professor of economics at the Gadjah Mada University who served as the chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Council from 19 January 2015 to 20 October 2019. She had also served as a member of the People's Consultative Assembly ad hoc expert team in 2001 and became the secretary of the Constitutional Commission. Early life and education Sri Adiningsih was born on 11 December 1960 in Surakarta as the eldest child of five. Her grandfather was a former Defenders of the Homeland soldier, a paramilitary organization established during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. Her father, Daswadi, died while she was in the third grade of elementary school, and Sri had to live with her mother, Sri Lulut, who managed a grocery store alone. Sri spent most of her childhood in Surakarta and met to-be president Joko Widodo while studying at the 1st Surakarta State Junior High School. Upon completing high school, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feisal Tanjung
General Feisal Edno Tanjung (17 June 1939 – 18 February 2013), known as Feisal Tanjung, was an Indonesian Army general who was ABRI Commander (from 21 May 1993 to 12 February 1998) and also served as Coordinating Minister for Politics and Security of the Republic of Indonesia. He had experience in combat, territorial and education. Much of his career was spent in special forces, Sandhi Yudha RPKAD Group (Kopassus) and later at the Kostrad 17th Airborne Infantry Brigade. Early life He was born in Tarutung, North Tapanuli, North Sumatra, Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies) on 17 June 1939. He was the 5th son of 10 brothers from the couple Amin Husin Abdul Mun'im Tanjung and Siti Rawani Hutagalung. The middle name "Edno" in the name is adjusted to the order of birth (E is the 5th letter of the alphabet). He was a Batak by ethnicity with Muslim religious faith. Career Feisal Tanjung had served in ABRI after graduating from the National Military Academy in 1961. After serving at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesian Military Academy
The Military Academy ( or ) is a service academy of the Indonesian Army, part of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Academy (). Founded on the early stages of the Indonesian Revolutionary War and located in the city of Magelang in Central Java, its alumni form a professional officer corps for the army, with all Indonesian Army Chiefs of Staff since 1988 having graduated from Akmil. History In October 1945, several months after the Indonesian declaration of independence, then-Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Armed Forces Oerip Soemohardjo ordered the establishment of a military academy, which was called the and was based in Yogyakarta. On the aftermath of a ceasefire with the Dutch armed forces in 1949, interest in the school dropped with only 9 cadets in Class 3 (1949 intake) compared to 200 in Class 2 (1946 intake), and the academy was closed in 1950 with remaining students sent to the Dutch . In the following years, several army officer schools would pop out in Indone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
