'Mahaputera' awards conferred on 43 people
'Mahaputera' awards conferred on 43 people
JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto conferred Mahaputera awards
on 43 people yesterday for their contributions to Indonesia's
development. Most were cabinet ministers, senior officials and
former officials.
Three of the 27 recipients of the highest Mahaputera
Adipradana awards were women: The wife of the vice president,
Mrs. Try Sutrisno; Minister of Social Services Endang Kusuma
Inten Suweno; and State Minister of Women's Roles Mien Sugandhi.
The senior cabinet ministers who received the top honor were
Minister of Home Affairs Yogie S. Memet, Minister of Justice
Oetojo Oesman, Minister of Finance Mar'ie Muhammad, former trade
minister S.B. Joedono, Minister of Mines and Energy I.B. Sudjana,
Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto, Minister of
Forestry Djamaloedin Soeryohadikoesoemo, Minister of Tourism,
Post and Telecommunications Joop Ave, Minister of Cooperatives
and Small Enterprises Subiakto Tjakrawerdaya, Minister of
Manpower Abdul Latief, Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman
Djojonegoro, Minister of Health Sujudi and Minister of Religious
Affairs Tarmizi Taher.
The state ministers chosen were State Minister of Food Ibrahim
Hasan, State Minister of Population/Chairman of the National
Family Planning Board Haryono Suyono, State Minister of
Investment/Chairman of Investment Planning Board Sanyoto
Sastrowardoyo, State Minister of Agrarian Affairs/Chairman of the
National Land Agency Soni Harsono, State Minister of Youth
Affairs and Sports Hayono Isman, State Minister of Administrative
Reforms T.B. Silalahi.
The Mahaputera Adipradana awards went to the deputies of the
House of Representatives and the speakers of the People's
Consultative Assembly: J.A. Katili, Soetedjo, Ismail Hasan
Metareum and A. Amiruddin, and former Air Force Chief Marsekal
(ret.) Utomo.
The 13 who received Mahaputera Utama awards were former Chief
of Indonesia's Peacekeepers to the Middle East Rais Abin, former
public works minister Ukar Bratakusumah, former Supreme Court
deputy M. Abdoerrachman, former deputies of the Supreme Advisory
Board M. Cholil Badawi and Imam Kadri Suprakto, chairman of the
State Logistics Agency Beddu Amang, former head logistic agency
head Achmad Tirtosudiro, former West Java Governor Aang Kunaefi,
former Indonesia Ambassador to Singapore Tuk Setyohadi, former
secretary-general to the Ministry of Defense Ali Budiardjo,
deputy chief of the Strategic Industry Supervision Agency Giri
Suseno Hadihardjono, head of the Central Bureau of Statistics
Soegito and the assistant state secretary of foreign affairs
Widodo Sutyo.
Three people received Mahaputera Pratama awards: the deputy
chief of industrial assessment at the Agency for the Assessment
and Application of Technology (BPPT), Ahmad Suleman Wiriadidjaja;
BPPT's deputy chief for natural resources development, Mudaham
Taufik; and the former BPPT deputy chief for system analysis,
Mohammad Anwar Ibrahim. (31)