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