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Ferry Francis Xavier Tinggogoy (29 February 1944 – 25 October 2013), more commonly known as Ferry Tinggogo, was an Indonesian high-ranking major general and politician, who served as a member of the Regional Representative Council from 2009 until his death in 2013. Previously, he served in the People's Representative Council from 1998 until 2001.

Born during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, Tinggogoy attended primary and secondary education in Bitung before migrating to Jakarta to pursue vocational education in mechanical engineering. He then enrolled at the Magelang National Military Academy and graduated on 10 December 1968. He began his military service at the XIV/Hasanuddin Regional Military Command (Kodam) in South Sulawesi, before being transferred to Bandung in 1974. After holding various military positions in Bandung for several years, he was promoted to further military education at the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC). Tinggogoy was the first non-Singaporean officer to have studied at SCSC.

After graduating from SCSC in 1984, Tinggogoy continued his career as a battalion commander until 1986. He was transferred to France as Defense Attaché in 1988 after serving at ABRI Headquarters for a year. He was asked to return to Indonesia after three years to assume the position of Deputy Commander of the Military Liaison Officers Unit in the United Nations Preliminary Mission in Cambodia. In his assignment, Tinggogoy was actively involved in the peace process of the warring factions since the Cambodian Civil War. He earned his first star after serving from Cambodia and was appointed Head of the Defense and Security Department's Language Center in 1995. He was promoted again two years later when he served as Expert Staff Coordinator of the Army Chief of Staff.

Early life and eduation
Tinggogoy was born on 29 December 1944, in Bintauna, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. Tinggogoy took his basic education at Bitung People's School in 1957 and his secondary education at Bitung Junior High School in 1960. After graduating from Junior High School, Tinggogoy moved to Jakarta and took vocational education in mechanical engineering at Budi Utomo 1 School of Mechanical Engineering, and graduated in 1965.

Early military career
Tinggogoy enrolled as a student at the Magelang National Military Academy and was accepted in 1965. Tinggogoy graduated three years later and was appointed a second lieutenant in the infantry on 10 December 1968. After being appointed, Tinggogoy took the Infantry Branch Basic Course and was assigned to South Sulawesi as a Platoon Commander in the 722nd Infantry Battalion in 1969. Two years later, he was dispatched to Irian Jaya as a member of Task Force 5 of the XIV/Hasanuddin Regional Military Command (Kodam). He served as a liaison officer while in Irian Jaya.

Tinggogoy returned to South Sulawesi in 1972, and became an aide to the then Commander of the XIV/Hasanuddin Kodam, Brigadier General Abdul Azis Bustam. After Bustam was replaced by Hasan Slamet in 1973, Tinggogoy was transferred to the Jeneponto 1410 Military District Command (Kodim) as an officer on the general staff of the Kodim. Tinggogoy served at the Jeneponto 1410 Kodim for until 1974, when he was ordered to take the Officers Advanced Course in Bandung. After completing the course, Tinggogoy was appointed as Deputy Commander of the Headquarters Detachment at the Army Education and Training Development Command, now the Army Doctrine, Education and Training Development Command, in the same year. Tinggogoy was transferred to Jakarta in 1976 and served as a territorial staff affairs officer at the TNI-AD Headquarters. During his tenure, Tinggogoy together with Nurhadi Purwosaputro, who would later serve as a member of the People's Consultative Assembly, were assigned to Taiwan for two weeks to study the country's military system. In addition, he also attended a course on territorial positions in 1977.

A year later, in 1978, Tinggogoy returned to duty at the Headquarters Detachment, at the Army Education and Training Development Command as an officer for training affairs at the Directorate of Training for the Headquarters Detachment at the Army Education and Training Development Command. Tinggogoy trained there for five years, and in 1983, he pursued further military education at the Army Staff and Command School. Tinggogoy graduated in the same year, and he became Commander of the 411th Infantry Battalion/Pandawa in Salatiga, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In January 1984, Tinggogoy was accepted as a 15th batch of students at the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC).[6] Singapore's Deputy Minister of Defense at the time, Yeo Ning Hong, stated that Tinggogoy's admission was the beginning of the admission of foreign students to the school and that all military personnel from ASEAN could also attend SCSC.[7]

Death
Tinggogoy died at 15.30, on 25 February 2013, at the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital. Prior to his death, Tinggogoy had been undergoing dialysis since September 2012. He was brought to the Intensive care unit on 20 February, due to kidney complications. According to his son, Tinggogoy died of bleeding in the intestines and kidney failure. His body was laid to rest at the Nusantara Building, on 27 February and was buried in the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery on the same day.