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Indonesia Eyes Technocrat as Top US Diplomat After Two-Year Gap
Indonesia is poised to appoint a US-educated technocrat as its ambassador to Washington, ending a prolonged vacancy in a key diplomatic post at a time when the Southeast Asian nation is recalibrating trade and business ties with the world's largest economy.
Lawmakers in Jakarta have approved Dwisuryo Indroyono Soesilo as envoy to the US following a closed-door vetting process, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Adies Kadir told Bloomberg News. Soesilo, 70, is a former cabinet minister as well as a geologist and veteran marine governance expert.
