Indonesian citizen, 58 years old, he has served as the Independent Commissioner of VKTR since 2022.
He is a prominent career diplomat, academic, author, and a former member of the Presidential cabinet. He previously served as the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2014, as Indonesia’s Ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2013, and as the Presidential Spokesperson for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from 2004 to 2010, making him the longest serving Presidential Spokesperson in modern Indonesia’s history.