Sugiono

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Sugiono (born 11 February 1979) is an Indonesian politician and diplomat who is serving as the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture since 1 October 2026, succeeding Pratikno. A member of the Gerindra Party, he is also the party's secretary-general since 2025. He previously served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs in President Prabowo Subianto's Red and White Cabinet from 2024 to 2026, and as a member of the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2024, holding the role of deputy chairperson of the House's First Commission which oversees the fields of defense, foreign affairs, and communications. Sugiono is dubbed as Prabowo's "ideological child". Upon his appointment as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sugiono has become the first non-diplomat and the first person with no academic background in international relations or diplomacy to hold that position in nearly 25 years. He is also the first foreign minister to be affiliated with a political party since Alwi Shihab....

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