Suryatna Subrata (1939 – 5 April 2024) was an Indonesian military officer, bureaucrat and politician. He was a member of the

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between 1998 and 2003, and had previously become secretary-general of the

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and the Vice Governor of

West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Bante ...

Early life

Suryatna Subrata was born in

Cianjur Cianjur ( su, ᮎᮤᮃᮔ᮪ᮏᮥᮁ) is a town and district in the West Java province of Indonesia, and is the seat of Cianjur Regency. The district of Cianjur is located along one of the main roads between Jakarta (120 km to the north ...

, in what is today

province, in 1939. After completing high school, he enrolled at the

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, graduating as part of the class of 1961. He would later also study at the Indonesian Army Command and General Staff College and at the

National Resilience Institute National Resilience Institute ( id, Lembaga Ketahanan Nasional, abbreviated as Lemhannas) is an Indonesian Non-Ministerial Government Agency tasked with carrying out government duties in the field of education for national leaders, strategic ass ...

Military career

By 1977, Subrata had been assigned to the Siliwangi Military Region, as an assistant to the unit's chief of staff. In 1978, he was assigned to the Philippines as defense attache, remaining there until 1981. Upon his return to Indonesia, he was appointed chief of staff of a military district within Siliwangi, then as its commander with the rank of colonel in 1982. He remained in this post until 1984. He held the final rank of

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Government career

Subrata was appointed as the Vice Governor of

on 14 September 1987, replacing Aboeng Kosman. He held the post until 1992, and his replacement, Achmad Sampurna, was appointed on 27 October 1992. In May 1993, he was appointed as secretary-general of the

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, serving until April 1998. He served as a member of the

between 1998 and 2003.

Later life and death

He died on 5 April 2024 at the Dustira hospital in

Cimahi Cimahi () is a landlocked city located immediately west of the larger city of Bandung, in West Java Province, Indonesia and within the Bandung Metropolitan Area. It covers an area of 40.37 km2 and had a population at the 2010 Census of 541, ...

, West Java. He was buried at his family's cemetery in Bandung.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Subrata, Suryatna 1939 births 2024 deaths Vice governors of Indonesian provinces People from Cianjur Regency Indonesian generals Indonesian National Military Academy alumni