Army has new deputy chief

Army has new deputy chief

JAKARTA: Army chief Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu installed on
Thursday Maj. Gen. Djoko Santoso as his deputy to replace Lt.
Gen. Darsono, who is retiring.

On Wednesday Djoko turned over his post as chief of the
Jakarta Military Command to Maj. Gen. Agustadi Sasongko Purnomo.

Djoko was top graduate of the Indonesian Military Academy in
1975 and spent most of his career at the Army's Strategic Reserve
Command (Kostrad) which was once led by Ryamizard,

In 2001, Djoko was assigned to Maluku to lead security
restoration in the province, which had seen years of bloody
sectarian conflict.

Djoko was born in the Central Java town of Surakarta in 1953.
He had served in the former Indonesian province of East Timor in
1976, 1981 and 1988 as part of the Seroja military operations. He
has also experience as a legislator when he served the House of
Representatives' TNI faction in the late 1990s. -- JP