Sutiyoso

Sutiyoso (born 6 December 1944), nicknamed Bang Yos, is an Indonesian politician and former general. He was Head of the State Intelligence Agency from 2015 to 2016, and was previously Governor of Jakarta from 1997 to 2007.

Born in Semarang, Sutiyoso dropped out of university to join the Indonesian Military Academy and graduated in 1968. He joined the Kopassus special forces unit as a military intelligence officer, seeing action in Kalimantan against the North Kalimantan Communist Party, East Timor against FRETILIN, and Aceh against the Free Aceh Movement. He had become deputy commander of the unit by 1988. He then commanded regular military units, becoming Jakarta's military region Kodam Jaya's commander by 1996.

Sutiyoso became Governor of Jakarta on October 1997, and the May 1998 riots took place during his first term. He was reelected by the Jakarta DPRD in 2002 for a second term, with the support of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. Several destructive floods struck Jakarta during his tenure, and to mitigate further flooding, Sutiyoso begun the construction of a flood canal. In 2004, he launched the TransJakarta BRT system as part of a larger uncompleted transport plan, and the service had expanded to seven corridors by the end of his governorship. He also engaged in slum clearance and evictions of informal hawkers. He was involved in a diplomatic incident with Australia in his last year in office.

After his tenure as governor, Sutiyoso made unsuccessful bids to run for president in 2009 and 2014, leading the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party between 2010 and 2015. He was then appointed to lead the State Intelligence Agency in July 2015, but was replaced after a year. Since 2021, he had become a member of the Nasdem Party. Provided by Wikipedia