Agus Subiyanto

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Agus Subiyanto (born 5 August 1967 in Cimahi, West Java) is an Indonesian general serving as Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces since November 2023; a Kopassus special-forces officer who served in East Timor, he commanded Kodam III/Siliwangi and was Chief of Staff of the Army before his appointment as armed forces commander.

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    Agus Subiyanto (born 1967) is an Indonesian general who has commanded the Indonesian National Armed Forces since November 2023, appointed by President Joko Widodo after serving only weeks as Chief of Staff of the Army 1 2.

    Life

    Subiyanto was born in Cimahi, West Java, on 5 August 1967, the second of six children of an army enlisted man, Dedi Unadi, and he grew up in hardship after his mother left and his father died in a traffic accident in 1984 1 3. He entered the Indonesian Military Academy in 1988 and graduated in 1991, then trained with the Kopassus special forces and served in East Timor in 1995 1 2.

    Work

    After battalion and intelligence posts in Kopassus and a series of regional commands, Subiyanto commanded the Presidential Security Forces in 2020-2021, Kodam III/Siliwangi in 2021-2022 and then served as Vice Chief of Staff and, from 25 October 2023, Chief of Staff of the Army, before Widodo named him Commander of the National Armed Forces on 22 November 2023 1 2. He leads under the acronym PRIMA - Professional, Responsive, Integrative, Modern and Adaptive - and has pledged armed-forces neutrality in elections and closer cooperation with the police 1. He is married to Evi Sophia Indira, has three children, and is a bass player and songwriter 1. No text read for this record names a faith for Subiyanto himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown 1 2 3.

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    1. Agus Subiyanto — English Wikipedia
    2. Agus Subiyanto — Indonesian Wikipedia
    3. Agus Subiyanto (Q56399696) — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Agus Subiyanto”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/agus-subiyanto/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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