15 Facts About Ribka Haluk

Ribka Haluk was born on 10 January 1971 and is an Indonesian bureaucrat and deputy minister of home affairs since October 2024.

Ribka Haluk previously held office as acting governor of Central Papua from 2022 to 2024 and head of Women Emancipation Office of Jayawijaya Regency in 2004 and then become acting regent of Mappi Regency in 2017 and acting regent of Yalimo Regency in 2021.

Ribka Haluk was appointed as a special staff under Ministry of Home Affairs before being appointed again as the acting governor of newly formed province of Central Papua.

Ribka Haluk is the first female Papuan to be appointed as a governor.

Ribka Haluk continued her studies at the University of Garut and received a graduate degree in administrative sciences.

Ribka Haluk later received a doctor degree from the Cenderawasih University in management.

Ribka Haluk joined the civil service upon her graduation from Cenderawasih University.

Ribka Haluk was assigned to the Jayawijaya regional government, where she become the head of the family welfare improvement sub-agency of the region in 2001.

Three years later, Ribka Haluk received a promotion and was entrusted to lead the region's women empowerment office.

Ribka Haluk was called to the government of the Papua province after about a decade in Jayawijaya.

Ribka Haluk became the Head of the Social Welfare and Isolated Communities Agency of Papua in 2013.

The agency was renamed to the Social and Settlement Agency a year later, and Ribka Haluk was installed as the head of the new agency on 6 March 2014.

Ribka Haluk first served as acting regent in the Mappi Regency from 11 April to 22 May 2017, replacing Stefanus Kasima, another acting regent whose term have ended.

Ribka Haluk was appointed as the acting regent of the region on 26 August 2021, with the main task of pacifying the region through communication with all stakeholders involved.

Ribka Haluk became the acting governor of Central Papua two days later.