Abdurrahman to install new Army chief of staff
Abdurrahman to install new Army chief of staff
JAKARTA (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid will install Lt.
Gen. Tyasno Sudarto as the new Army chief of staff on Saturday,
Indonesian Military (TNI) spokesman Maj. Gen. Sudrajat said on
Friday.
Tyasno, who currently heads the Military Strategic
Intelligence Agency (BAIS), will replace Gen. Subagyo
Hadisiswoyo, who will then be installed as an aide to the
President, Sudrajat said.
Sudrajat did not give a date for the handover of the post, but
another military source said the ceremony would take place on
Dec. 2.
Subagyo also confirmed the changing of the guard in the Army,
but refused to go into details.
"I have yet to receive the order, but Insya Allah (God
willing) it will not take time," Subagyo said after installing
the new chief of the Jakarta Military Command Maj. Gen. Ryamizard
Ryacudu, who replaced Maj. Gen. Djadja Suparman at the city
military headquarters earlier on Friday.
Subagyo took the Army's top post in February last year,
replacing Gen. Wiranto, who is now Coordinating Minister for
Political and Security Affairs.
Tyasno, 51, graduated from the Army Academy (AKABRI) in 1970.
He served as the social and political affairs assistant to the
Jakarta Military Command in 1995, the director of the Armed
Forces Intelligence Board (BIA) in 1996 and an assistant for
planning and budgeting to the Army chief of staff from 1996 to
April 1998.
He then replaced his AKABRI classmate Subagyo as chief of
Diponegoro Military Command overseeing Central Java before being
moved to the expanded BAIS in January this year.
When asked about media reports on the transfer of duty in the
State Intelligence Coordinating Board (Bakin), Sudrajat said he
was uninformed about the issue.
"The decision to replace the chief of Bakin is the President's
privilege, and I have no information on it," Sudrajat said as
quoted by Antara.
A high-ranking official at the Ministry of Defense said that
head of the military's security and law enforcement affairs Lt.
Gen. Arie J. Kumaat would take over from Lt. Gen. (ret) ZA
Maulani as the new Bakin chief. (01/gis)