Siti Nurbaya Bakar (born 28 August 1956) is the Minister of Environment and Forestry in Indonesian President

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's Working Cabinet.

Early life

Siti was born in Jakarta on 28 July 1956, the daughter of Mochammad Bakar, a police officer from

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, and Sri Banon from

Lampung Lampung (Lampung: ), officially the Province of Lampung ( id, Provinsi Lampung) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra. It has a short border with the province of Bengkulu to the northwest, and a ...

province. After completing

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high school in Jakarta, she studied at

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(IPB), earning a degree in engineering.

Career

After graduating from college, she started work in 1981 for the Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda) in Lampung and remained there for 17 years. In 1998, she moved back to Jakarta to work in the Home Affairs Ministry. She served as secretary general of the ministry for the 2001–2005 period. She was alleged to have received Rp 100 million in a fire truck procurement deal when she was the secretary general at the Home Affairs Ministry, but she was not pursued by the

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(KPK) because she said the project had involved the minister and the ministry's director general without going through her. She was appointed by president

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as secretary general of the

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(DPD) for 2006–2013. In January 2013, Siti stepped down from the DPD and joined media tycoon

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’s National Democrat Party. In 2014, she was elected to the House of Representatives (DPR), representing Lampung electoral district for the 2014–2019 period. She soon had to retire from the DPR after being appointed Minister of Environment and Forestry by President Joko Widodo.

Personal life

Siti is married to Rusli Rachman and they have two children: Meitra Mivida and Ananda Tohpati.

References

1956 births Bogor Agricultural University alumni Government ministers of Indonesia Living people category:Lampung people Working Cabinet (Joko Widodo) People from Jakarta Onward Indonesia Cabinet {{Indonesia-stub