Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih (1 February 1955 – 2 May 2012) was an Indonesian

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, and

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. She served as

Minister of Health A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare spending and other social security services. Some governments have separate ministers for mental heal ...

of the

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from 22 October 2009 until 30 April 2012.

Career

Sedyaningsih began her career in 1979 as a

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in the Jakarta Pertamina Hospital. She joined the public health service in 1980 and worked in remote areas as the Head of Waipare Health Center in

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for three years. In 1983, she moved to

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and continued working in the public health service with the Jakarta Provincial Health Office. In 1997, she joined the National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD) of the

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n Ministry of Health.

Research work

Sedyaningsih worked as a researcher in the Center of Disease Control Research and Program Development, NIHRD for more than a decade. For 6 months in 2001, she spent her time working at the

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Headquarters in

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. From 1997 to 2006, Sedyaningsih held an important position at the World Health Organization’s headquarters in Geneva, as a technical adviser in the department of communicable disease surveillance and response. She was appointed as the Director of the Center of Biomedical Research and Program Development, NIHRD in 2007. Sedyaningsih was given notable credit by her fellow researchers for her courage in having helped devise the

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sharing mechanism, playing a constructive role in global health.

Minister of Health

On 22 October 2009, Sedyaningsih was appointed as the

of the

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and joined his cabinet which is called the ''Second Unified Indonesia Cabinet''. She succeeded her former supporter and boss Siti Fadillah Supari who had initially expressed her disappointment over the Sedyaningsih's appointment as her replacement.

Illness and death

In October 2010 she was diagnosed with

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and underwent extensive treatment. On 20 April 2012, she was admitted to Cipto Mangunkusumo

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(''Rumah Sakit Cipto Mangunkusumo'', RSCM) due to continuous pain. On 26 April 2012, when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited her in the hospital, she tendered her resignation as

due to ill-health. On 30 April 2012, Keputusan Presiden (''Presidential Decree'') No. 46/P/2012 was signed by

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, ending Sedyaningsih's term as Indonesia's Minister of Health. Sedyaningsih died at the age of 57 on 2 May 2012 in RSCM,

. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono presided over her

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the next day at the Heroes Plaza, San Diego Hills Memorial Park,

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Education

Sedyaningsih grew up in Jakarta and went to a public elementary school, later on called as SD Negeri Merdeka Timur. She then continued her education to SMP Negeri 35 and SMA Negeri 4 in Jalan Batu. Sedyaningsih received her

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in 1979 from the Faculty of Medicine at the

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, and her

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(MPH) and

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(DrPH) degrees in Social

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from

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in 1997.

Personal life

Sedyaningsih was the oldest daughter of

Sudjiran Resosudarmo Sudjiran Resosudarmo (1920–1985) (also written as Soedjiran Resosoedarmo or Soedjiran Reksosoe-darmo) was an Indonesian geographer and teacher. He was the rector of Institut Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (IKIP) Jakarta, now known as the State ...

and Satimah Mardjana. Sedyaningsih was married to Dr. Reanny Mamahit, an

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specialist and Director of RSUD

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(Tangerang Region Public Hospital). The couple had two sons and a daughter.

References

External links

* Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesi

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