Ferry Tinggogoy | |
|---|---|
 Portrait as a member of the Regional Representative Council, 2010. | |
| Indonesian Senator from North Sulawesi | |
| In office 1 October 2009 – 25 October 2013 | |
| President | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono |
| Succeeded by | Sintje Sondakh Mandey |
| Constituency | North Sulawesi |
| Member of the People's Representative Council from North Sulawesi | |
| In office 7 November 1998 – 27 April 2001 | |
| President | B. J. Habibie Abdurrahman Wahid |
| Succeeded by | Yahya Secawirya |
| Constituency | North Sulawesi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ferry Franciscus Xaverius Tinggogoy February 29, 1944 North Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, Dutch East Indies |
| Died | October 25, 2013 (aged 69) Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Nationality | Indonesian |
| Political party | National Awakening Party |
| Other political affiliations | Golkar (until 2004) |
| Spouse | Lenny Helena Makalew |
| Children | 3 |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Indonesia |
| Branch/service |  Indonesian Army |
| Years of service | 1966 — 2001 |
| Rank |  Major General of the Army |
| Unit | Infantry |
Ferry Francis Xavier Tinggogoy (29 February 1944 – 25 October 2013), more commonly referred to as Ferry Tinggogo, was an Indonesian high-ranking major general and politician, who served as a member of the Regional Representative Council from the province of North Sulawesi, from 2009 until his death in 2013. Previously, he served in the People's Representative Council from 1998 until 2001, and the Army from 1966 until 2001.
Born during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, Tinggogoy attended primary and secondary education in Bitung, before enrolling at the National Military Academy in Magelang, graduating in 1968. He began his military service at the XIV/Hasanuddin Regional Military Command, and later attended and graduated to the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC), becoming the first non-Singaporean to attend. He returned to Indonesia in 1984, and became a battalion commander until 1986, when he served at ABRI Headquarters for a year. He was then transferred to France as a Defense Attaché in 1988, but left the position in 1991, to assume the position of Deputy Commander of the Military Liaison Officers Unit in the United Nations Preliminary Mission in Cambodia. In 1995, he was appointed Head of the Defense and Security Department's Language Center. He was promoted again in 1997, as an Expert Staff Coordinator of the Army Chief of Staff.
In November 1998, he was appointed as a member of the People's Representative Council (DPR), as a member of the DPR from the Military/Police faction. During his two year tenure, he was involved in dealing with a number of conflicts such as the Aceh and East Timor conflicts. He resigned from the DPR due to his opposition to the the impeachment of Abdurrahman Wahid. He also retired from the military a short time later. Following his removal from the DPR and his retirement from the military, he joined the National Awakening Party (PKB), and was appointed as Chairman of the Regional Executive Board of the North Sulawesi branch of the party. His appointment marked the party's first efforts to open up the party to non-muslims.
In 2004, he ran for a seat in DPR, but lost the election. During the campaign, he expressed his support for the Wiranto and Salahuddin Wahid ticket during the first round of the 2004 Indonesian presidential election, but following his election loss, he shifted his support to the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla ticket in the second round of the election. In 2009, he ran for a seat in the Regional Representative Council, and was elected with 124,323 votes. As a senator, he was involved in the Ahmad Farhan Hamid controversy. He died on 25 February 2013, at the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital. Prior to his death, he had been undergoing dialysis since September 2012. His body was laid to rest at the Nusantara Building on 27 February, and was buried in the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery on the same day.
Early life and education edit
Ferry Francis Xavier Tinggogoy was born on 29 Desember 1944, in Bintauna, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. Tinggogoy took his basic education at Bitung People's School (equivalent to Primary school) in 1957 and his secondary education at Bitung Junior High School in 1960. After graduating from Junior High School, Tinggogoy moved to Jakarta and took vocational education in mechanical engineering at the Budi Utomo 1 School of Mechanical Engineering, and graduated in 1965.[1]
Military service edit
Early military service edit
Tinggogoy enrolled as a student at the Magelang National Military Academy and was accepted in 1965. Tinggogoy graduated three years later and was appointed a second lieutenant in the infantry on 10 December 1968. After being appointed, Tinggogoy took the Infantry Branch Basic Course and was assigned to South Sulawesi as a Platoon Commander in the 722nd Infantry Battalion in 1969.[1] Two years later, he was dispatched to Irian Jaya as a member of Task Force 5 of the XIV/Hasanuddin Regional Military Command (Kodam). He served as a liaison officer while in Irian Jaya.[2]
Tinggogoy returned to South Sulawesi in 1972, and became an aide to the then Commander of the XIV/Hasanuddin command, Brigadier General Abdul Azis Bustam. After Bustam was replaced by Hasan Slamet in 1973, he was transferred to the Jeneponto 1410 Military District Command (Kodim) as an officer on the general staff of the command.[2] Tinggogoy served at the Jeneponto 1410 command until 1974, when he was ordered to take the Officers Advanced Course in Bandung.[1]
After completing the course, he was appointed as Deputy Commander of the Headquarters Detachment at the Army Education and Training Development Command, now the Army Doctrine, Education and Training Development Command, in the same year. He was then transferred to Jakarta in 1976 and served as a territorial staff affairs officer at the TNI-AD Headquarters.[1] During his tenure, Tinggogoy together with Nurhadi Purwosaputro, who would later serve as a member of the People's Consultative Assembly,[3] were assigned to Taiwan for two weeks to study the country's military system.[4] In addition, he also attended a course on territorial positions in 1977.[1]
Overseas assignments edit
A year later, in 1978, Tinggogoy returned to duty at the Headquarters Detachment, at the Army Education and Training Development Command, now the Army Doctrine, Education and Training Development Command. Tinggogoy trained there for five years, and in 1983, he pursued further military education at the Army Staff and Command School, now the Army Command and General Staff College.[1] Tinggogoy graduated in the same year, and became Commander of the 411th Infantry Battalion/Pandawa in Salatiga, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.[5] In 1984, he was accepted as a student at the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC).[6] His admission was the beginning of the admission of foreign students to the school, with Singapore's Deputy Minister of Defense at the time, Yeo Ning Hong stating that all military personnel from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) could now also attend the school.[7]
People's Representative Council edit
Appointment edit
Aceh conflict edit
As a member of the DPR, he was involved in discussion regarding the implementation of the status of civil emergency in the province of Aceh, due to the actions of the Aceh Referendum Information Center and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). Tinggogoy argued that the status of the province was irrelevant, and that the DPR itself should hope that the civil emergency would be the government's last resort to resolve the insurgency. Tinggogoy himself hoped that the government would pursue a peaceful path in the form of dialogue and negotiations before considering the option of civil emergency.[8]
However, when the government finally declared a state of emergency in 2001, Tinggogoy supported the policy and stated that the military operations carried out in the context of the state of emergency were "done in order to maintain the unity and integrity of the nation". He also rejected the presence of international observers to oversee the implementation of human rights during the state of emergency, because, according to him the, Aceh insurgency was a national affair, not an international one.[9]
East Timor conflict edit
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Resignation edit
PKB chairman edit
Candidacies for governor edit
First candidacy edit
Second candidacy edit
Association of Provincial Governments edit
Regional Representative Council edit
Election edit
In the 2009 Indonesian legislative election, he ran for a senate seat in the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) from the province of North Sulawesi. In the general election he received the ballot number 7, and received a total 124,323 votes which placed him in third. Enough for him to earn a seat in the DPD.
Controversy edit
Notes and references edit
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References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Setiawan, Agus (26 February 2013). Setiawan, Agus (ed.). "Gubernur Sulut melayat Ferry Tinggogoy" [Governor of North Sulawesi mourns Ferry Tinggogoy]. Manado.antaranews.com (in Indonesian). Antara. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ a b General Elections Commission (1999). Pemilihan Umum 1999: Buku lampiran I-XII [1999 General Election: Appendix I-XII] (in Indonesian). General Elections Commission. p. 467. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
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