Army Chief Of Staff General Dudung Said, 'A Great Leader Is Loved By His Subordinates And Loves His Subordinates'

KSAD General TNI Dudung Abdurachman (Photo via Dispenad)

JAKARTA - Army Chief of Staff (KSAD) General TNI Dudung Abdurachman has a concept of how to be a great leader. General Dudung said, a great leader is a leader who is loved by his subordinates.

For Dudung, God made someone as a leader to carry out the mandate. So, he said, take advantage of the opportunity to be a leader to do good to his subordinates.

"A great leader is a leader who is loved by his subordinates and it is even greater if the leader can love his subordinates," said Army Chief of Staff Dudung in front of all Unit Commanders (Dansat) in the ranks of Kodam II/Sriwijaya in the Sudirman Building, Kodam II/Sriwijaya Headquarters, Palembang, Tuesday March 8th.

The briefing was part of a series of activities for the Army Chief of Staff's working visit to the Kodam II/Sriwijaya area. Dudung's visit to the unit below was carried out in order to carry out the duties and functions of developing the strength that was the responsibility of General Dudung.

Dudung said, the principle of field leadership of a leader through the illustration of his experience on duty. Previously, General Dudung had served in Palembang for a long time and he had valuable experience when carrying out operations in Aceh while serving as Danyonif 143.

Based on this experience, Kasad emphasized that if you want to succeed in carrying out your duties, try to be able to help the people and never hurt the people.

"If you want to be successful, leaders must be able to imagine, innovate, be creative, have a vision and mission, as well as ideals and hopes," he added.

Here, Dudung and his entourage were greeted by the Military Commander II/Sriwijaya Major General Agus Suhardi along with all Makodam II/Sriwijaya officials. The reception procession began with a row of honors, followed by the draping of flowers and handing over of hand buckets to the Army Chief of Staff and General Chairperson of Persit Kartika Chandra Kirana (KCK).

Dudung started his working visit by inaugurating Building C Makodam II/Sriwijaya.

Pangdam II/Sriwijaya in his speech told about the background of the construction of Building C or the Makodam parking building which will be inaugurated by Kasad today. The construction of the parking building was inspired by his observations regarding the condition of members' vehicles, which had to be parked all day without protection, exposed to the sun or rain.

"From that basis, I went to the Governor of South Sumatra, he was supportive, Alhamdulillah. Now in front of Mr. KSAD there is Building C, equipped with a Videotron. There is also a cooperative and a Hub (transportation) office," reported Major General TNI Agus Suhardi to Dudung.