Darmin named Bapepam chairman<\/p>\n
Leony Aurora, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n
The government has decided to appoint Darmin Nasution as chairman
\nof the Capital Market Supervisory Agency (Bapepam), a minister
\nsays.<\/p>\n
\"The final assessment team has decided on Darmin,\" Minister of
\nFinance Jusuf Anwar said on the sidelines of the Indonesian
\nCapital Market Seminar and Expo on Friday.<\/p>\n
\"We are waiting for a presidential decree (to make the
\nappointment official),\" he said.<\/p>\n
Darmin was appointed as ad interim chairman of the agency in
\nNovember last year when then Bapepam head Herwidayatmo was sent
\nto represent the country as a director of the World Bank.<\/p>\n
Darmin also heads the directorate general for financial
\ninstitutions in the ministry of finance.<\/p>\n
The government had proposed Darmin and two others -- the
\nagency's head of investment management and research Freddy
\nSaragih and finance ministry's secretary general Agus Muhammad --
\nfor the agency's top post.<\/p>\n
\"I don't know (about the appointment),\" said Darmin when he
\nwas asked for comment. \"I cannot say anything before the
\npresidential decree is issued.\"<\/p>\n
Darmin completed his bachelor degree on economics from the
\nUniversity of Indonesia in 1976 and earned his doctorate from the
\nUniversity Paris I Sorbonne in 1986.<\/p>\n
Bapepam is a state agency under the finance ministry tasked
\nmostly to regulate and oversee the country's capital market. It
\nalso conducts investigations into alleged irregularities and
\nimposes fines.<\/p>",
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