1. Tjahjo Kumolo served as Minister of Home Affairs in the Working Cabinet, and Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet from 2019 until his death, both under President Joko Widodo.
18 Facts About Tjahjo Kumolo
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Tjahjo Kumolo was a longtime loyalist of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri and a senior member of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.
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Tjahjo Kumolo was Secretary General of PDI-P between 2010 and 2015, and was a member of the People's Representative Council between 1999 and 2014 during which time he was the speaker of his party's faction until his replacement by later fellow minister Puan Maharani.
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Tjahjo Kumolo was born in Surakarta on 1 December 1957.
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Tjahjo Kumolo attended school for 12 years in the larger city of Semarang and lived in the Mlatiharjo administrative village on the eastern side of the city.
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Tjahjo Kumolo's father, Bambang Soebandiono, was a lieutenant in the Indonesian Army.
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Tjahjo Kumolo studied at the National Resilience Institute until 1994.
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Tjahjo Kumolo first became a member of the People's Representative Council in 1985, which necessitated his move to Jakarta.
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Tjahjo Kumolo had worked in the second and third commissions of the parliament in addition to the interparliamentary partnership body.
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Tjahjo Kumolo ran once more in the 2004 elections and remained in the parliament, this time as the speaker of the PDI-P faction until another election in 2009, when he once more secured his seat.
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Tjahjo Kumolo was chosen as the Secretary General of PDI-P in 2010 by party leader Megawati Soekarnoputri.
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In Widodo's second term, Tjahjo Kumolo was appointed Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform.
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Tjahjo Kumolo married Erni Guntarti and the couple has three children.
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Tjahjo Kumolo's wife is a doctor and first child is a dentist, with his second child is graduated from law school and the third as a flight attendant.
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Tjahjo Kumolo was a practicing Muslim, hailed from a religious diverse family background.
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Tjahjo Kumolo claimed that his experience in such a family formed him to be a religious moderate.
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Tjahjo Kumolo died after being hospitalized for two weeks at the Abdi Waluyo Hospital in Jakarta on 1 July 2022.
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Tjahjo Kumolo was buried in a military funeral at Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery on the same day.