Career
Siti commenced her career at the foreign department in 1991. From August 1998 to November 2002,she served as program director for SMEs,gender issues dan social safety net issues at the APEC Secretariat in Singapore. [1] [3] According to her,during this period,she gained invaluable experience in navigating complex international debates,learning to find common ground and "win-win solutions" even when direct advocacy for her home country was not possible,an experience she credits with shaping her distinctive diplomatic approach. [4] Subsequently,she returned to the foreign department,serving as deputy director for APEC from November 2002 to October 2005. Her international postings continued with a four-year stint at the embassy in Rome,where she was counselor for multilateral affairs from November 2005 to June 2008,representing Indonesia to the Food and Agriculture Organization,and later as counselor for economic affairs from July 2008 to December 2009. [3] [1] [5]
Upon her return to Jakarta,she briefly served as deputy director for a few months in 2010. Around this time,she visited Kabul,Afghanistan,for a post-war conference,during which she faced threats of IEDs despite being in an armored car. [5] Siti then took the role of director for technical cooperation and served from May 2010 to July 2016. [4] The relatively new directorate,which was just four years old at that time,was part of the-then emerging South–South cooperation,in which Indonesia acts as both a recipient and a provider of assistance to developing nations. Under her leadership,the directorate's work expanded from a few capacity building programs for developing countries to numerous internal capacity building programs to prepare Indonesians for the South–South cooperation,such as English language training for Indonesian experts. Other than the programs,the directorate was involved in compiling a national South–South cooperation database,approaching local governments,and developing public-private-partnership cooperation. To increase accountability and awareness to the general public,the directorate began publishing a bulletin in 2014. [6]
Following her directorship,she was appointed consul general in Shanghai on 23 August 2016, [7] serving until February 2019. [3] [4] In September 2018,President Joko Widodo named Siti as a nominee for ambassador to Poland. [8] After passing an assesment held by the House of Representative's first commission in October, [9] on 7 January 2019 she was installed as ambassador. [10] She presented her credentials to President Andrzej Duda on 20 March. [11]
Upon serving as ambassador,Siti returned to the foreign ministry to take office as senior advisor (expert staff) to foreign minister Retno Marsudi for socio-cultural affairs and diaspora empowerment on 27 October 2020. [12] She then assumed office as director general for information and public diplomacy on 6 October 2023, [13] in which she was responsible for leveraging artificial intelligence for information dissemination,strengthening public dialogue,and enhancing the role of the Indonesian diaspora globally. She was also tasked with utilizing recipients of Indonesia's art and culture scholarship to act as cultural bridges between Indonesia and neighboring countries. [4]
In August 2024,President Joko Widodo nominated Siti as Indonesia's ambassador to Denmark,with concurrent accreditation to Lithuania. She passed a fit and proper test held by the House of Representative's first commission in September that year. [14] She was installed by President Prabowo Subianto on 24 March 2025. [15]
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