Dr Dino Patti Djalal: From Washington DC to President Palace, Jakarta

Dino Patti Djalal was the Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States from 2010 till 2013. His career began in 1987 when he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia as a young diplomat. He has been selected for several prominent positions for the last 25 years. He was the Head of Political Department at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Washington, and also the Director of Central and North America Relations. Lately he became the President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s public speaker representative before he selected to be an Ambassador. Bringing a vision to accelerate the economic development in Indonesia through the national value added and advantages of democratic implications, He together with 10 of Indonesian future leaders were joining the Democratic Party convention for the election of Indonesian President in 2014. In order to focus on this, he then decided to resign from his post in September 2013. Personally, he is different to the other candidates. Since we have seen that he is seriously preparing for the election with his decision to resign from his last position. Currently, he spreads his vision and mission through produce several books to the societies, blog and other social media. Seemingly he is sure that right now is our decade to transform to the more democratic and sustainable development in the economy and public policy. Similarly, he has the basics of natural foreign diplomatic from his father and lately he also became a diplomat. International diplomacy skills and competencies can be very powerful tools of this decade, since the development of technology becomes a massive issue to the relationship of one country to another. The last issue regarding the degradation of the relationship between Australia and Indonesia because of the use of advanced technology and hacker wars was anxious to undertake by the concern policy makers in Indonesia. Indeed, we need a leader with capabilities to reconstruct a model of international relations and address the national goals to the bilateral as well multilateral relationships. Furthermore, he is also concerned with the national development imbalances. As we know, Indonesia is a plural strategist country. We became unity in a nation not because of one religion or language, but we had the same purpose in the past to become an independent one. There are several political and economic issues pertaining to misuse of economic policies. Since the policy makers currently make a narrow overview that Indonesia is only Jakarta, they then decided to make propeller-shaft of economic activities. Around 80% of the economic transaction turnover is only in Jakarta, even they believe that exploring all the national resources outside of the capital city and destroy the nature just only to become elites in the nation is a notion. Anything but quiet as there is nobody to fight against the corrupt mentality and asocial behavior. Let us see what has happened in Papua, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and several other islands. The most prominent issue is the separation of Papua. This island is very fantastic with thousand beauties. What do the policy makers do? A new occupation is there. Somebody says that every single baby in Papua is now drinking a glass of milk everyday; also he builds thousands of school and hospital in there. It seems hilarious while million tonnages of natural resources in Papua worth billion US$ are taken away from this island every year, also degradation of living habitats becomes the major issue and human rights problems are still exist in there. However, the policy maker has just only paid with the glass of milk for one single baby that we still have to find evidence whether he says correct or not. Realizing that Dino Patti Djalal has announced that those issues are the major concerns, seemingly it makes a lot of volunteers to work with him nowadays. His motto “Nasionalme Unggul” is not just only a trademark, but also may bring the Indonesian top of mind platform in the future point views in order to pay the forfeited independence promises of the past and become the new Asian tiger in the future.