A Number Of Adjutants With Brilliant Careers

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JAKARTA - Through Surpres number: R-02 / Pres / 01/2021 which was conveyed by Minister of State Secretary Pratikno, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) proposed the name of the Head of Criminal Investigation of the National Police, Komjen Listyo Sigit Prabowo, as a candidate for the National Police Chief to replace Idham Azis.

Listyo's activities at the Bhayangkara Corps are indeed numerous. Including, when he led the arrest of Joko Tjandra who was a fugitive in the Bank Bali collection rights or cessie case.

In addition, he was an aide to President Joko Widodo in 2014 for two years before being appointed as the Banten Police Chief.

Listyo is not the only former aide with a fancy career. Many high-ranking officials in Indonesia have been former high-ranking bodyguards and who are they?

1. Head of BIN Budi Gunawan

Budi Gunawan began to be known to the public when he was the assistant to the 5th President of the Republic of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarnoputri for three years, 2001-2004. At that time, he became the youngest general because he was promoted to the rank of one-star general or Brigadier General with the position of Head of the Career Development Bureau of the Police Headquarters.

Furthermore, in 2008 he sat as the Jambi Police Chief. Shortly thereafter, from 2009 to 2010 he served as Head of the Police Legal Development Division.

Budi also served as Deputy Chief of Police before he was finally appointed by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) and was promoted from Commissioner General to General before finally retiring.

2. KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri

Firli, who now serves as chairman of the anti-corruption commission, was a former aide to Vice President Boediono in 2012. However, this was not his first position in the Palace environment because in 2010 or two years earlier, he had been an assistant to the Personal Secretary of the 6th President of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono .

After serving as a former adjutant to Vice President Boediono for two years, Firli's career continued to grow. Because, after that he served as Deputy Regional Police Head of Banten in 2014 and Deputy Chief of Central Java Police in 2016.

Then starting 2017, Firi served as West Nusa Tenggara Police Chief replacing Brigadier General Pol Umar Septono and shortly in 2018 he entered as Deputy of Enforcement at the KPK before finally taking up the position of co-chair of four deputies namely Alexander Marwata, Lili Pintauli Siregar, Nawawi Pomolango, and Nurul Ghufron in 2019.

3. Army Chief of Staff General Andika Perkasa

Since 2018, General TNI Andika Perkasa has been appointed to hold a strategic position as Chief of Staff of the Army (KSAD). This former aide to President Jokowi sat in that position after replacing General Mulyono.

Andika, who is the son-in-law of General (ret) AM Hendropriyono, started his career as the 1st Infantry Officer of the Special Forces Command (Kopassus) Group 2 with the rank of Second Lieutenant.

Next, Andika's career took off. He was the Commander of the Team 3 Sat Gultor Kopassus to Pangkostrad before finally sitting as Army Chief of Staff to this day.