Foreign ministry has new spokesman

Foreign ministry has new spokesman

JAKARTA: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has named a new
spokesman who will replace Marty Natalegawa, who has been named
director general of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations
(ASEAN).

A source at the foreign ministry told The Jakarta Post on
Tuesday that Marty would be replaced by young diplomat Yuri
Thamrin, who is currently stationed in New York at the Indonesian
mission to the United Nations.

No date has been set for the official announcement of the
replacement, but Marty took up his new job last week.

Marty is replacing senior diplomat Abdurrahman Mattaliti, who
was appointed as Indonesian ambassador to the European Union.--JP