24 Facts About Klemen Tinal

Klemen Tinal was an Indonesian politician from the Golkar party.

Klemen Tinal held the office of the Regent of Mimika from 2001 until 2006 and again from 2008 until 2013.

Klemen Tinal won the 2013 election for Vice Governor of Papua and was installed in office on 9 April 2013.

Klemen Tinal began his education at the elementary and junior high school owned by the Jayawijaya Education Foundation in Tembagapura.

Klemen Tinal was elected as the chairman of the student body in his second year in the school and received the award as the best performing student body chairman in the same year.

Klemen Tinal returned to Papua after his graduation from high school.

Klemen Tinal started his career as an administrative supervisor at the Freeport Indonesia company in 1993.

Klemen Tinal resigned in 2001 to run for the Regent of Mimika.

Klemen Tinal won the elections for the Regent of Mimika office in the midst of 2001 and was installed in the office on 14 December 2001.

At the time of his installation, Klemen Tinal was one of the youngest regents in Indonesia, assuming the office at an age slightly above the legal threshold of thirty years old.

Klemen Tinal ran again as a candidate for the Regent of Mimika in the 2008 local elections.

Klemen Tinal's wife became a fugitive after she was declared as a suspect in the case.

Klemen Tinal was chosen as the running mate of Lukas Enembe, the regent of Puncak Jaya, for the 2013 Papuan gubernatorial elections.

Enembe and Klemen Tinal were inaugurated for the office on 9 April 2013.

Klemen Tinal was installed for his second term on 5 September 2018.

Klemen Tinal was elevated to the position of temporary governor of Papua after Governor Enembe departed to Singapore for medical treatment on 9 May 2021.

Klemen Tinal died two weeks after he left his post on sick leave.

Klemen Tinal died in the Abdi Waluyo Hospital, Jakarta, on 21 May 2021 at approximately 04.00 UTC+7.

Klemen Tinal's body was laid out at the Gatot Subroto funeral home several hours after his death.

Klemen Tinal's body was flown by a chartered flight from Jakarta to the capital of Papua, Jayapura, a day after his death.

When several officials from the Papuan government visited the state house, several relatives of Klemen Tinal attacked the officials.

Klemen Tinal's body was transported again to the Jemaat Betlehem GKII Church on the next day where a requiem was held for him.

Klemen Tinal's family received compensation amounting to one billion rupiahs from the government of Papua and one hundred million rupiahs from the Regent of Central Mamberamo.

Simon, one of Klemen Tinal's relatives, stated that the compensation was shared immediately with funeral attendees.