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.