Grace Natalie's Action, PSI Politician Appointed As BUMN Commissioner

Grace Natalie (Psi_id image)

YOGYAKARTA - Grace Natalie was appointed as Commissioner of the Indonesian Mining Industry Holding (MIND ID). Grace was appointed to the BUMN position based on the annual general meeting of shareholders (AGMS). Grace Natalie's profile and actions also attracted public attention.

Before being elected as commissioner of MIND ID, Grace Natalie was known as a politician from the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI). Grace admitted that she had been inactive in the party since before being appointed to the commissioner position at the state-owned company.

The figure of Grace Natalie has actually been quite poor across Indonesia. He pursued a career as a journalist in well-known media to become a politician. So what did Grace Natalie do to make herself trusted to play an important role in a state-owned company.

Long before becoming a political friend, Grace Natalie had a career in broadcasting media as a journalist. He had a long experience as a journalist for major Indonesian media. Prior to serving as a commissioner of BUMN, he was also appointed as the Presidential Special Staff.

In the past, Grace participated in the SCTV Goes to Campus competition which was looking for talented young journalists. He managed to become the winner in the Jakarta area, until he advanced to the national level. Finally Grace managed to occupy the top five positions.

Along with this achievement, Grace Natsalie was hired by SCTV as a broadcaster for the Liputan6 program in 2004. Two years later, this woman who was born in Jakarta, July 4, 1982, left SCTV and was anchored into a journalist on ANTV.

Two years later, Grace moved back to work on TVOne. At that time, the woman whose full name is Grace Natalieie had a crash course at the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands in 2009.

As a journalist, Grace has covered a number of important events in the country such as tsunamis in Aceh 2024, riots in Poso, and the eruption of Mount Talang in West Sumatra. Grace also has experience in exclusive interviews with international figures, ranging from Forbes CEO Steve Forbes, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Timorese President Leste Jose Ramos Horta, and others.

After six years of waving in the media industry, Grace changed her career direction to the academic realm. Grace became CEO of Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC). While on duty here, she was exposed to politics.

Over time Grace became interested in politics and decided to start her career as a politician. Grace founded PSI with Raja Juli Antoni and another former television presenter, Isyana Baoes Oka. He later became chairman of PSI.

Grace handed over the continuation of the position of chairman of PSI to Giring Ganesha in 2021. When the former vocalist of the Nidji band occupied the position of Chairman of the Definitive PSI, Grace turned into Deputy Chairman of the PSI Board of Trustees.

However, she only held this position for a year, because Grace was appointed as the executor of the duties of the chairman of the PSI DKI Jakarta regional leadership council. Since 2023, Grace has been recorded as holding the position of Deputy Chair of the PSI Board of Trustees.

Grace Natalie's figure was increasingly highlighted during the momentum of the 2024 election yesterday. He participated as a party cadre carrying candidate pair number 2 Prabowo-Gibran. He is also the deputy chairman of the National Campaign Team (TKN).

Grace Natalie received a mandate from President Joko Widodo to fill the position of special staff of the President last May. Jokowi assigned Grace to take care of political communication issues within the Istana Keperesidentan until the full term of presidential duty on October 20.

Since being appointed as President Jokowi's staff member, Grace has revealed that she is no longer active in PSI. Likewise, it continues at this time when she was appointed to fill the position of Commissioner of MIND ID. Grace follows the provisions governing that the position of commissioner of BUMN cannot be held by political party officials.

That's the summary of Grace Natalie's actions, who has just been appointed as commissioner of SOE MIND ID. Grace Natalie's figure is actually familiar in Indonesia, especially in the broadcasting media industry. But for the past few years, Grace has been more active as a politician. Also read the profile of Grace Natalie, PSI General Chair.

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