New home affairs officials appointed<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A familiar face and an active military lecturer
\nwere installed as the new secretary-general and director general
\nof the Ministry of Home Affairs Monday.<\/p>\n
Faisal Tamin, former director general for regional
\ndevelopment, was inducted as secretary-general. He replaces Lt.
\nGen. (ret) Suryatna Soebrata, who has reached the mandatory
\nretirement age.<\/p>\n
Maj. Gen. Dunidja is the ministry's new director general for
\nsociopolitical affairs. He replaces Maj. Gen. Achdary, who will
\nsoon assume a new post at the Armed Forces (ABRI) headquarters.<\/p>\n
The ceremony was held at the home affairs ministry's office
\nwith minister R. Hartono presiding.<\/p>\n
Faisal, who will turn 57 this year, was born in Dompu,
\nSumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara. Upon graduating from the National
\nUniversity in Jakarta in 1967, he received a middle-level staff
\nposition at the home affairs ministry.<\/p>\n
He was appointed the ministry's spokesman in 1975. He remained
\nat the post until 1978. He joined a course at the military think-
\ntank, the National Resilience Institute (Lemhanas), in 1985.<\/p>\n
Faisal became an expert staff member to the minister of home
\naffairs in 1987 before he was appointed director general for
\nregional development in 1994.<\/p>\n
Dunidja, 53, is a 1967 graduate of the Armed Forces Academy.
\nHe hails from Cirebon, West Java.<\/p>\n
He spent most of his military career at several units across
\nthe country and was involved in military operations against
\nseparatist movements in the provinces of Aceh, East Timor and
\nIrian Jaya.<\/p>\n
He was appointed a brigade chief of the Army's Strategic
\nReserves Command (Kostrad) in 1987 and became the assistant for
\noperational affairs to the deputy chief of the Brawijaya Regional
\nMilitary Command, overseeing East Java province, in 1989.<\/p>\n
He was chief of the Jakarta Infantry Regiment in 1991 and was
\nassigned chief of the Trikora Regional Military Command,
\noverseeing the provinces of Maluku and Irian Jaya, in 1995. He
\nhas spent the last two years as a lecturer at Lemhanas. (imn)<\/p>",
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