Sodjuangon Situmorang

Sodjuangon Situmorang (born 7 June 1949) is an Indonesian bureaucrat who worked in the Department of Internal Affairs and briefly in the office of the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs as a deputy. Sodjuangan also held office as the acting governor of Central Kalimantan in 2005 and Papua in 2006.

Early life and education
Sodjuangon was born on 7 June 1949 in Tarutung, which was part of the North Tapanuli Regency in North Sumatra.

Sodjuangan was a graduate of the Administration Faculty of the University of Indonesia. He continued his studies at the National Resilience Institute in 1997 and graduated in 1999.

Career
Prior to his appointment as a director general in 2004, Sodjuangan worked at various levels in the Department of Internal Affairs. He started his career at the inspectorate general of the department, where he became the assistant inspector for government affairs to the Inspector for the 5th Region. Sodjuangan was later promoted and held office as the Inspector for Region V and later as the Region VII. Sodjuangan was later promoted again, and became the inspector general for the regional government in the Directorate General of Public and Regional Government.

After being relieved from inspectorate offices, Sodjuangan was appointed as the secretary to the Director General of Public and Regional Government. He was later posted to the Minister of Internal Affairs at that time, Hari Sabarno, in which he became Hari's expert staff on governance and later on law and politics. After his stint as an expert staff, he was appointed as the deputy to the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs.

Sodjuangan was appointed a member of the investigation team for the Maluku sectarian conflict on 14 January 2002, representing the Communion of Churches in Indonesia. He signed the Malino II Accord as a mediator.

On 19 October 2004, Sodjuangan was inaugurated as Director General of Population Administration, replacing Rohadi. Shortly afterwards, he was also appointed as the chairman of the Aceh Assistance Team, which was tasked to complete the bill on Aceh autonomy. The team attempted to include a clause on pemekaran (province split) in the bill but it was not approved by the legislature in the final law.

Sodjuangan assumed office as the Acting Governor of West Kalimantan on 23 March 2005 after the previous governor, Asmawi Agani, decided to run in the Central Kalimantan gubernatorial election. Sodjuangan's main task as acting governor was to supervise and execute the gubernatorial election. Agani lost the elections to Agustin Teras Narang and Sodjuangan handed over the governorship to Narang on 4 August 2005.

In the midst of his tenure as acting governor, Sodjuangan was sworn in as the director general of public government on 12 May 2005. Several months into his new office, he was already named as a candidate for the acting governor of Papua after Governor JP Solossa announced his candidacy in the gubernatorial election. However, due to the lengthy bureaucracy, the election could not be held in the scheduled timespace, and Solossa's term was extended on 23 November 2005. Solossa suddenly died in office on 19 December and his regional secretary, Andi Baso Bassaleng, succeeded him as an acting governor the day after. Sodjuangan replaced Bassaleng as acting governor on 9 January 2006. His main task was identical to his previous tenure as acting governor.

The gubernatorial election was held three months after Sodjuangan took office. Barnabas Suebu, who had previously served as governor, won the elections, and Sodjuangan transferred his office to Suebu after the latter's inauguration on 25 July.

On 7 January 2008, Sodjuangan became the Director General of Regional Autonomy.

Sodjuangan reached the mandatory age of retirement on 7 June 2009 and subsequently resigned from his office. His office was assumed temporarily by the ministry's secretary general Diah Anggraeni.

Later life
After his resignation, Sodjuangan became a president commissioner in the International Biometrics Indonesia.

Personal life
Sodjuangan is married to Maria Endah Retno Susilawati.

Sodjuangan is a Protestant Christian and is of Batak descent. As of 2019, he attended mass at the Menara Iman Protestant Church in Western Indonesia.