Ade Supandi (born 26 May 1960) is a retired admiral in the

Indonesian Navy The Indonesian Navy ( id, Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut, , Indonesian National Military-Naval Force, TNI-AL) is the naval branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. It was founded on 10 September 1945 and has a role to patrol In ...

who formerly served as its chief of staff ( id, Kepala Staf Angkatan Laut, abbreviated KSAL or ''Kasal''). Previously, he had been the General Chief of Staff of the

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and the commander of the navy's eastern fleet.

Career

Ade graduated from the

Indonesian Naval Academy The Indonesian Naval Academy ( id, Akademi Angkatan Laut or ) is a service academy of the Indonesian Navy, the naval component of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Academy System or the . Its campus is located in Surabaya, East Java and train ...

in 1983. He passed through multiple positions, including the governor of the Naval Academy in 2010 and commander of the Eastern Fleet Command before being appointed to the post of the KSAL's budgeting and planning assistant. He was transferred to be TNI's General Chief of Staff on 12 March 2014, before being appointed by

Joko Widodo Joko Widodo (; born 21 June 1961), popularly known as Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is the 7th and current president of Indonesia. Elected in July 2014, he was the first Indonesian president not to come from an elit ...

as KSAL on 31 December. He was promoted to the rank of admiral on 3 February 2015. After his retirement, he was replaced by

Siwi Sukma Adji Admiral (Ret.) Siwi Sukma Adji (born 14 May 1962) is a retired admiral of the Indonesian Navy who had served as its chief of staff ( id, Kepala Staf Angkatan Laut, abbreviated ''KSAL'' or ''Kasal'') since 23 May 2018 until 20 May 2020, replacing ...

on 22 May 2018. He remarked that he "was not yet interested" in entering politics.

Awards

National

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''Bintang Yudha Dharma Nararya''