Prabowo Appoints Arrmanatha Nasir as Indonesia’s New Foreign Minister
- Arrmanatha Nasir took the oath of office as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in October 2026, at the State Palace in Jakarta.
- Before taking charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arrmanatha served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs starting in October 2024.
- Arrmanatha's career encompasses prominent leadership roles across international organizations.
Arrmanatha Nasir took the oath of office as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in October 2026, at the State Palace in Jakarta. President Prabowo Subianto led the swearing-in ceremony as part of a Cabinet Merah Putih reshuffle, where Arrmanatha succeeded Sugiono, who currently serves as Menko PMK.
Diplomatic Career and International Experience
Before taking charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arrmanatha served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs starting in October 2024. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 30, 1971, he is a career diplomat with a record in international relations. His early experience in public diplomacy includes working as a financial institutions officer at Bank Dagang Negara Indonesia from 1996 to 1997. He then entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, beginning with an assignment as second secretary and World Trade Organization negotiator at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia in Geneva from 2001 to 2004. His official record details multiple domestic and international postings within the ministry. From 2005 to 2008, he worked as deputy director for agriculture and commodities under the Directorate General for Multilateral Affairs. He later served as a counselor at the Indonesian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York from 2008 to 2012, managing economic and development issues in the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly and ECOSOC, alongside acting as a negotiator for the Group of 77 and China. In 2010 and 2011, he served as an advisor on economic affairs and least developed countries to the president of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly.
Multilateral Leadership and UN Postings
Arrmanatha’s career encompasses prominent leadership roles across international organizations. He served as the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2019, communicating official government positions on foreign relations. Following that assignment, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France, Andorra, Monaco, and Permanent Delegate of Indonesia to UNESCO from 2019 to 2021. From 2021 to 2024, he acted as Indonesia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. During this tenure, he held several additional positions, including Vice President of ECOSOC in 2023, Indonesia’s first Permanent Representative to the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica in 2023, and Vice Chairman of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in 2024.
Educational Background
According to biographical data from Antara, Arrmanatha completed his undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 1993. He followed this with postgraduate studies, earning a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom from 1993 to 1994. He also obtained a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Indonesia, which he completed between 1997 and 1998.