Following Peter Gontha, Gus Dur's Son Yenny Wahid Gives A Signal To Resign From Garuda Indonesia: Very Sad, But This Is For Efficiency

JAKARTA - Zannuba Ariffah Chafsoh or better known as Yenny Wahid has officially resigned as Independent Commissioner of PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk following Peter Gontha. Yenny took this decision to help Garuda finance.

This morning, Yenny had come to the Ministry of SOEs to submit her resignation letter which she signed on Friday, August 13. Not long after, Yenny's resignation letter was directly signed.

"To help reduce the costs incurred by Garuda, I have decided to resign from my position as an independent commissioner," he said, quoted from his Twitter social media account @yennywahid, Friday, August 13.

Due to the pandemic, our proud airline, @IndonesiaGaruda, has experienced a drastic decline in revenue. To save costs, I decided to resign from the position of independent commissioner. Hopefully this can help relieve Garuda. #GarudaIndonesia#kebanggaanindonesia pic.twitter.com/z8yoj6ZDGG

— Yenny Zannuba Wahid (@yennywahid) August 13, 2021

For Yenny, this decision is a small effort that she can do for Garuda Indonesia. He hopes his steps can make Garuda's expenses more efficient.

"Hopefully this step will bring benefits to the company, so that it can be more cost efficient, so it can be more agile in the air," he said.

Furthermore, Yenny admitted that this was a very difficult decision. Even though he is no longer on Garuda's Board of Commissioners, he said he would always be there for the state-owned airline.

"It's really sad but this is my small effort to help Garuda make efficiency," he said.

For your information, Yenny was appointed as a commissioner of Garuda at the GMS on January 22, 2020. Apart from Yenny, another Commissioner, Peter Frans Gontha, gave a signal that he would no longer serve at the issuer coded GIAA.

In his Instagram account, Peter Gontha shared his photo with other members of Garuda's Board of Commissioners, namely Elisa Lumbantoruan, Triawan Munaf, Zannuba Arifan alias Yenny Wahid, and Chairal Tanjung.

Peter said the figure standing in the portrait will soon retire from the company at the Garuda GMS on August 14. The figure in the middle is him.

"I received this photo from Mr. Triawan Munaf. 5 (five) members of the Garuda Indonesia Board of Commissioners. What is certain is that on August 14th, the middle one will be terminated / replaced / dismissed," wrote Peter, quoted on Monday, August 9.

Furthermore, Peter also expressed his gratitude for the trust given by the company and the public to him during his career as a commissioner of Garuda Indonesia.

As is known, Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir will reshuffle the board of directors and commissioners of PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk in the general meeting of shareholders (GMS) which will be held today. One of the agenda is to reshuffle the directors and commissioners of the state-owned airline company.

Previously, Garuda had planned to reduce the number of commissioners as a form of efficiency. This step is an effort to save state-owned airlines from debt bondage.