Fadjar Prasetyo | |
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Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force | |
In office 20 May 2020 –5 April 2024 | |
President | Joko Widodo |
Preceded by | ACM Yuyu Sutisna |
Succeeded by | ACM Mohamad Tony Harjono |
Commander Defense Territorial Joint Command II | |
In office 24 September 2019 –26 May 2020 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Imran Baidirus |
Commander Air Operations Command I | |
In office 24 September 2018 –24 September 2019 | |
Preceded by | Nanang Santoso |
Succeeded by | Muhammad Khairil Lubis |
Personal details | |
Born | Jakarta,Indonesia | 9 April 1966
Military service | |
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Years of service | 1988–2024 |
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Air Chief Marshal Fadjar Prasetyo (born 9 April 1966) is an Indonesian air chief marshal who is Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force from May 2020 to April 2024.
Fadjar was born in Jakarta on 9 April 1966 and graduated from the Indonesian Air Force Academy in 1988. He began his air force career as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot between 1990 and 1995 at Hasanuddin Air Base with the callsign Bobcat,then was reassigned to Halim Air Base where he became an aviation officer aboard Fokker F28 and Boeing 707 planes. He then piloted a Boeing 737 [1] [2]
Afterwards,he was assigned to the Indonesian Embassy in Malaysia as a defense attache for air force. Other positions he had taken included being head of training of the air force and a wing commander at Halim. In 2016,he was appointed the commander at Halim Airbase,being ranked an air commodore by the end of his tenure,and between 2018 and 2019 he served as commander of operational zones 2 (2018) and 1 (2018–2019) of the airforce. Shortly before his appointment as Chief of Staff,he was joint commander of defensive region 2,serving directly under the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. [2] [3] During this period,he was promoted to air marshal in November 2019. [4]
He was appointed air force chief of staff on 20 May 2020,and received a promotion to a four-star rank (air chief marshal) alongside. [5] Shortly after he was sworn in,he released a 100-day program as chief of staff,which included among others managing the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [6] In September 2020,Fadjar inaugurated a cyber unit (Satsiber) for the Indonesian Air Force. [7]
Prasetyo was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia on 16 October 2023 for distinguished service to the Republic of Indonesia and Australia through strategic vision and promotion and enhancement of the military-to-military relationship between the two countries. [8]
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