Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Yudo Margono leads a ceremony to honor National Heroes Day aboard KRI Semarang-594 warship off Jakarta on November 10,2022 (Antara picture)
BY: YUSTINUS PAAT
DECEMBER 01, 2022
Jakarta. Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Yudo Margono, the president’s sole choice for the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) commander, is scheduled to participate in a hearing hosted by the House of Representatives Defense Committee on Friday that could be a rubber-stamping procedure to validate his election.
Defense Committee Chairwoman Rep. Meutya Hafid [Golkar Party] said on Thursday the “fit and appropriate test” will be conducted the whole day.
It will start with the confirmation of administrative requirements in the early morning, followed by a discussion from the appointee and a Q and A session, she stated.
” The TNI commander nominee is offered 30 minutes for his discussion,” Meutya stated.
The hearing will be open to the general public but Meutya said some parts of it may be held behind a closed door if the subject is personal such as the nation’s defense technique.
” After the hearing is concluded, we will conduct factual confirmation at his personal home,” Meutya said.
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Yudo, who turned 67 last month, has been assigned to a minimum of 19 posts in eight various locations given that he graduated from the naval academy in 1988.
He likewise has become a captain of five different Navy ships up until 2010.
Prior to being designated as the Navy chief of personnel, Yudo was associated with the building and construction of 2 makeshift Covid-19 healthcare facilities on Galang Island and at Jakarta’s athletes’ village.
He’s married to Veronica Yulis Prihayati, a middle-ranking police officer, and they have three boys.
President Joko Widodo said previously that Yudo’s consultation is based more on the turning leadership of the TNI. In the past nine years, the Indonesian military has actually been led by three Army generals and one air chief marshal.
The last Navy chief of personnel to lead the Indonesian military is Admiral Agus Suhartono, who retired in August 2013.
Throughout the 32- year tenure of President Soeharto, the leading post of the armed force was offered to Army generals just. President Abdurrahman Wahid was the very first in the post-Soeharto era to depart from the tradition by appointing Admiral Widodo Adi Sutjipto as the TNI commander in 2000.
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