Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi

Identification

                Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi (born in Semarang, Central Java, November 27, 1962; age 52 years [1]) is the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs [2] Indonesia who served from October 27, 2014 in the Cabinet of the President's Joko Widodo. Previously he served as Ambassador of Indonesia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands in The Hague. She was educated at the upper secondary SMA 3 Semarang before finally earned S1nya at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, in 1985. [3] She then earned a law S2 EU Haagse Hogeschool, Netherlands.

Description

Upon graduation from university, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1997 to 2001, Marsudi served as First Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. In 2001, she was appointed as Director of Europe and America Affairs.[2] Marsudi was promoted to Director of West Europe Affairs in 2003.[3]In 2005, she was appointed as the Indonesian Ambassador for Norway and Iceland.[2] During her tenure, she was awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in December 2011, makes the first Indonesian to obtain the award.[4] She also briefly take up studies of human rights at the University of Oslo. Prior to her tenure finished, Marsudi returned to Jakarta and appointed as General Director of Europe and America Affairs, which is responsible for supervising Indonesia's relations with 82 countries in Europe and America.Marsudi was appointed as Indonesian Ambassador to the Netherlands in 2012.[2] She has also led various multilateral negotiations and bilateral consultations with the EU, ASEM, and FEALAC.[2] On 27 October 2014, she was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Joko Widodo in his Working Cabinet.[5]