Soeharto dismisses four BI directors
Soeharto dismisses four BI directors
JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto dismissed four Bank Indonesia
directors and replaced them with two outsiders and two others
from the central bank, according to a presidential decree issued
yesterday.
Presidential Decree No. 352/M 1997, dated Dec. 20, stated that
Hendrobudiyanto, the director responsible for private foreign
exchange bank supervision, Paul Soetopo Tjokoronegoro, director
of market operations, Heru Soepraptomo, director of legal affairs
and Mansjurdin Nurdin, director for the supervision of private
non-foreign exchange banks, were honorably dismissed from their
positions.
However, Soeharto still kept the three other directors:
Boediono, Haryono and Mukhlis Rasjid.
Soeharto said the four directors were replaced based on a
letter from the minister of finance, dated Dec. 19.
They were replaced by Iwan R. Prawiranata, the president
director of state-run Bank Bumi Daya (BBD), Miranda S. Gultom,
the deputy assistant for monetary affairs to the coordinating
minister for economy and finance, Sjahril Sabirin, former Bank
Indonesia director, and Aulia Pohan, from the central bank's
internal resources research and development department.
Soeharto said the four new directors met all requirements to
become a central bank director.
Iwan R. Prawiranata, 55, has extensive experience in the
banking industry. Before holding BBD presidency, Iwan was
president of state-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI); and before
that, he was president of state-owned Bank Expor Impor Indonesia
(Exim).
Iwan, according to Panji Masyarakat magazine, started his
career at Bank Exim in 1969 when the bank was first established.
About 20 years later, Iwan was appointed president of the bank.
Iwan, a graduate of Bandung-based Padjajaran University, was
then assigned to lead BRI in 1992, and then BBD.
Syahril Sabirin was a Bank Indonesia director from 1988 to
1993. He was then transferred to Washington DC to represent Bank
Indonesia at the World Bank.
Miranda S. Gultom, 48, has been an active lecturer and
researcher since she graduated from the University of Indonesia's
School of Economics in 1973.
She is also a productive columnist and writer and a highly
popular speaker. She wrote the book Indonesia's Financial
Liberalization: An empirical Analysis of 1980-1988 Panel Data.
Miranda got her M.A. degree in political economics and Ph.D.
in economics from Boston University.
She was a consultant with various international organizations,
including the World Bank in Washington DC, the Asian Development
Bank in Manila and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific in Bangkok.
In 1993, Miranda was appointed deputy assistant to the
coordinating minister for economy and finance.
Aulia Pohan is a new face. Before being promoted as a central
bank director, he was head of the central bank's research and
development department. (prb/rid)