NEW DEPUTY:

NEW DEPUTY:

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Outgoing City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad
Hindarto (foreground) installed Col. Hamami Nata (right) as the
new deputy chief of the city police yesterday. Hamami, 48, still
an adjutant to President Soeharto, replaces Brig. Gen. Dibyo
Widodo (left), who is going to replace Hindarto tomorrow.

The new official, born in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan,
graduated from the Indonesian Armed Forces Academy in 1970 and
took a management training course in London in 1985. Prior to his
appointment as Soeharto's adjutant in 1991, Hamami headed the
Lido Police School in Sukabumi, West Java. In 1988, he headed the
North Jakarta police precinct, in 1989 the Central Jakarta police
precinct and in 1990 he was deputy head of the planning and
budget division of the Jakarta Police.

His predecessor Dibyo, the same age, was the President's
adjutant during the period of 1986 and 1992.