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Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto replaced ⁠his foreign minister with a career diplomat on Thursday, in his second change to a top post in his cabinet in less than three weeks.
Prabowo ‌in a cabinet reshuffle named as foreign minister, the ministry’s former permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, with the outgoing Sugiono appointed Human Development minister.
The appointment of Nasir, who was Sugiono’s deputy, is expected ⁠to mark a shake-up at the ministry.
It comes after Prabowo ‌sacked his finance minister, Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, on September 14, replacing him with his deputy, Suahasil Nazara, ‌which investors welcomed as a move that could help restore ⁠confidence ⁠in the US$1.5 trillion G20 economy after months of uncertain policymaking.
Nasir said after the inauguration that his priorities included maintaining stability in the region and promoting multilateralism.

Analysts have said Sugiono’s ‌foreign ministry had been sidelined as Prabowo played a more dominant role in foreign policy.
Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a foreign policy analyst at Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency, said long-time diplomat Nasir was expected to play a more ‌assertive role.
“He can be a foil to Prabowo,” she said, adding that the foreign ministry ⁠under the “even-keeled” Nasir will ⁠now be under pressure to scrutinise every diplomatic deal more carefully.
Dewi cited the furore caused by a joint statement signed with China in 2024, ‌which pledged to develop projects “in the overlapping waters claimed by the two countries”. The statement was widely interpreted as a recognition of China’s sweeping territorial claims in ‌the South ‌China Sea.
Dewi also said she hoped Nasir could help “get Indonesia back on the map” within Asean by ‌shaping the Southeast Asian bloc’s response to Myanmar, which has been engulfed in a nationwide civil war since the military ⁠seized power in a 2021 coup.
Keeping ‌a ‌low profile and hardly appearing in media, Sugiono was not ‌a diplomat and came from Prabowo’s Gerindra party. State news ⁠agency Antara had described Sugiono as Prabowo’s “ideological child” and one of ⁠his most trusted aides.
Sugiono oversaw some notable foreign policy initiatives, including Indonesia’s entry into Brics, the grouping ‌of major emerging economies, ‌and Jakarta’s decision to join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace initiative for Gaza.
Indonesia also pledged troops to a proposed international stabilisation force for Gaza.


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Arrmanatha Nasir is a career diplomat who was Indonesia’s former permanent representative to the United Nations in New York


Arrmanatha Nasir is a career diplomat who was Indonesia’s former permanent representative to the United Nations in New York.


Indonesia’s Prabowo appoints new foreign minister

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Arrmanatha Nasir is a career diplomat who was Indonesia’s former permanent representative to the United Nations in New York

Arrmanatha Nasir is a career diplomat who was Indonesia’s former permanent representative to the United Nations in New York