Biodata Penny K. Lukito, Head Of The POM Agency Who Dissoroted Due To The Case Of Fail In Accountability

Head of BPOM RI Penny K. Lukito (ANTARA/Andi Firdaus).

YOGYAKARTA Some people may be curious about Penny K. Lukito's biodata, considering that she was the most highlighted person when cases of acute kidney failure in children surfaced in the country.

As is known, the soaring cases of acute kidney failure in children in Indonesia some time ago were allegedly caused by the preparation of a sirop drug contaminated with glycol ethilen and glycol dietilen.

After this case surfaced, the name Penny Kusumastuti was highlighted by many parties, because she is the Head of the Indonesian Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM), the agency in charge of overseeing the distribution of medicines and food in Indonesia.

Biodata Penny K. Lukito

Penny K. Lukito was born in Jakarta on November 9, 1963. He was appointed by President Jokowi as Head of BPOM since June 20, 2016. Penny is the first Head of the POM to be directly inaugurated by the President of the Republic of Indonesia.

Before being appointed as Head of BPOM, Penny was a State Civil Apparatus (ASN) for the Main Planning Department of National Development Planning / BAPPENAS for the Presidential Special Envoy of the Republic of Indonesia for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the 2013-2016 period.

In addition, Penny is also noted to have held several positions, such as:

After obtaining an Environmental Engineering degree from the Bandung Institute of Technology, Penny continued her studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States and earned a Master in City Planning (MCP) degree.

It didn't stop there, Penny also managed to get a doctoral degree with Major for Environmental Engineering, and Minor at Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Penny is also quite productive in writing articles. Some of the articles she has written are New Hopes for Bureaucratic Reform (Tempo, 2012), Leadership Key to Indonesian Bureaucratic Reform (The Jakarta Post, 2012)

In addition, in 2013 Penny K. Lukito also produced a Policy Paper entitled Subsidy Policy for Just Drinking Water Services for Urban Poor communities and wrote a book with the title "Earning Transparency and Accountability of Public Sector Performance: The Challenges of Future Democracy" published by PT Gramedia in 2013, quoted by VOI from the official BPOM RI website, Thursday, November 24, 2022.

Some of the awards that Penny Lukito received while serving as an ASN include:

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