Indonesia appoints new disaster agency head in President Prabowo's third reshuffle in a month
- JAKARTA: Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday (Oct 15) appointed a new head for the country's disaster mitigation agency in his third reshuffle of cabinet members and senior officials in just over a month.
- Kristomei Sianturi replaced Suharyanto as chief of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), one of the key agencies currently battling land and forest fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra that have engulfed parts of the region in smoke haze.
- Kristomei is an army general who was most recently commander of the Radin Inten Regional Military Command, a post he held from August last y
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- JAKARTA: Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday (Oct 15) appointed a new head for the country's disaster mitigation agency in his third reshuffle of cabinet members and senior officials in just over a month.
- Kristomei Sianturi replaced Suharyanto as chief of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), one of the key agencies currently battling land and forest fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra that have engulfed parts of the region in smoke haze.
- Kristomei is an army general who was most recently commander of the Radin Inten Regional Military Command, a post he held from August last y
Sources: CNA