Armed Forces has new spokesman<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Armed Forces (ABRI) installed Brig. Gen.
\nAbdul Wahab Mokodongan yesterday as the Military Information
\nCenter's chief.<\/p>\n
Wahab, 49, replaces Brig. Gen. Slamet Supriadi, who has been
\nmade Deputy Assistant of Intelligence Affairs to the Armed Forces
\nChief of General Affairs.<\/p>\n
Wahab, who was in the same class as Supriadi at the Military
\nAcademy, told journalists they could call him 24 hours a day and
\ngave them his handphone number.<\/p>\n
\"We need close relations between ABRI and the press because
\nthe public deserve to know any kind of information,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Supriadi, who had been ABRI's spokesman for only five months,
\nalso promised to remain close to the press even though his new
\nposition required him to \"keep my mouth shut\".<\/p>\n
Wahab was chief of the Army's information affairs unit for
\nthree years before being appointed secretary to the Army
\nSpokesman in 1995. He held this secretarial position for almost
\ntwo years.<\/p>\n
Wahab, a 1971 military academy graduate, is from Kotamobagu
\nsubdistrict, in North Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
He started his military career as a platoon chief in the Irian
\nJaya Regional Military Command's Infantry Battalion in 1972.<\/p>\n
He spent ten years in Irian Jaya before being transferred to
\nWest Java where he spent eight years.<\/p>\n
He was made a lecturer at the Army's Staff and Command School
\nin 1990 where he taught for two years before leading the Army's
\ninformation affairs unit.<\/p>\n
Besides studying at the military academy, Wahab studied
\nmilitary strategies and policies at the Armed Forces Staff and
\nCommand School and the National Resilience Institute. (imn)<\/p>",
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