TNI announces officer reshuffle

TNI announces officer reshuffle

JAKARTA: The Indonesian Military (TNI) announced a new
reshuffle on Thursday, affecting 21 high-ranking officers from
the Army, Navy and Air Force.

TNI spokesman Col. Ahmad Yani Basuki announced that Brig. Gen.
Bibit Santoso was his new deputy after the reshuffle, which was
approved on Wednesday by TNI chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto.

Brig. Gen. Kardijono has been appointed as new expert staff
for humanitarian affairs at the TNI, while Brig. Gen. Rasyid
Qurnuen will serve as new Diponegoro Army chief of staff
overseeing Central Java.

The change also affected the current expert staff for national
management at the National Resilience Institute, Rear Adm. Tedjo
Edhy Purdijatno, who will serve as new Navy commander of the
western region.

His current position will be taken over by Rear Adm. Moekhlas
Sidik, while Rear Adm. Fanani Tedjokusumo has been appointed as
new Navy field commander, and First Marshall Yoseph Rasiman as
deputy chief of the Air Force command staff school. --Antara