Nuriana reelected West Java governor

Nuriana reelected West Java governor

BANDUNG, West Java: As many predicted, 60-year-old R. Nuriana
was reelected governor of West Java after winning a majority vote
during a plenary session of the local legislative assembly here
Wednesday.

Nuriana was first appointed to the office May 22, 1993, and
was inducted by then home affairs minister Moch. Yogie S.M.

If his reelection is endorsed by the President, he will be
inducted by Home Affairs Minister R. Hartono on May 22.

Nuriana was a geology student at the Bandung Institute of
Technology before he entered the Military Academy in 1959 where
he graduated in 1962 as a second lieutenant.

He was rose to the rank of brigadier general by 1987. His
special training included an international defense management
course in the United States in 1982.

Medals of merit bestowed on him include the Satya Lencana
Penegak (1965), Satya Lencana Kesetiaan VIII, Dwijaya Sistha,
Satya Lencana Seroja (1976), Satya Lencana Kesetiaan XVI and the
Bintang Kartika Eka Paksi Nararya (1989), Antara said.