User:The man from Gianyar/Ferry Tinggogoy III

Ferry Francis Xavier Tinggogoy (29 February 1944 – 25 October 2013) was an Indonesian high-ranking major general and politician, who served as a member of the Regional Representative Council from the province of North Sulawesi, from 2009 until his death in 2013. A member of the National Awakening Party, he previously served in the People's Representative Council from 1998 until 2001, and the Indonesian Army from 1966 until 2001.

Born during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Tinggogoy attended primary and secondary education in Bitung, before enrolling at the National Military Academy in Magelang, graduating in 1968. He began his military service at the XIV/Hasanuddin Regional Military Command, and later attended and graduated to the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC). He returned to Indonesia in 1984, and became a battalion commander. In 1986, he was served in the Military's Headquarters for a year, before being transferred to France as a Defense Attaché in 1988. Three years later, he assume the position of Deputy Commander of the Military Liaison Officers Unit in the United Nations Preliminary Mission in Cambodia.

In 1995, he was appointed Head of the Defense and Security Department's Language Center. He was promoted again in 1997, as an Expert Staff Coordinator of the Army Chief of Staff. In November 1998, he was appointed as a member of the People's Representative Council (DPR), as a member of the DPR from the Military/Police faction. During his two year tenure, he was involved in dealing with a number of conflicts such as the Aceh and East Timor conflicts. He resigned from the DPR due to his opposition to the the impeachment of Abdurrahman Wahid. He also retired from the military a short time later. Following his resignation from the DPR and his retirement from the military, he joined the National Awakening Party (PKB).

In the PKB, Tinggogoy was appointed as Chairman of the Regional Executive Board of the North Sulawesi branch of the party. In 2004, he ran for a seat in DPR, but lost the election. During the campaign, he expressed his support for the Wiranto and Salahuddin Wahid ticket during the first round of the 2004 Indonesian presidential election, but later shifted his support to the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla ticket in the second round of the election. In 2009, he was elected a senator in the Regional Representative Council. He died on 25 February 2013, at the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital. His body was laid to rest at the Nusantara Building on 27 February, and he was buried in the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery on the same day.

Early life
Ferry Francis Xavier Tinggogoy was born on 29 Desember 1944, in Bintauna, North Bolaang Mongondow, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. Tinggogoy took his basic education at the Bitung People's School (equivalent to Primary school) in 1957, and his secondary education at the Bitung Junior High School in 1960. After graduating from Junior High School, Tinggogoy moved to Jakarta and took a vocational education in mechanical engineering at the Budi Utomo 1 School of Mechanical Engineering, where he graduated in 1965.

Early military service


Tinggogoy enrolled as a student at the Magelang National Military Academy and was accepted in 1965. Tinggogoy graduated from the academy three years later, and was appointed a second lieutenant in the infantry on 10 December 1968. Tinggogoy then took the Infantry Branch Basic Course and was assigned to South Sulawesi as a platoon commander in the 722nd Infantry Battalion in 1969. In 1972, Tinggogoy was dispatched to Irian Jaya as a member of Task Force 5 of the XIV/Hasanuddin Regional Military Command (Kodam). During his time in Irian Jaya, Tinggogoy served as a liaison officer. Returning to South Sulawesi in 1972, he became an aide to the then Commander of the XIV/Hasanuddin command, 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 command. Tinggogoy served at the Jeneponto 1410 command until 1974, when he was ordered to take the Officers Advanced Course in Bandung. After completing the course, he 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. In 1976, he was transferred to Jakarta, and served as a territorial staff affairs officer at the Army Headquarters. There, Tinggogoy was assigned to Taiwan for two weeks to study the country's military system.