Ali Alatas
Foreign Minister of Indonesia
In office 21 March 1988 – 21 May 1998
President	Suharto
Preceded by	Mochtar Kusumaatmadja
In office 21 May 1998 – 20 October 1999
President	Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
Succeeded by	Alwi Shihab
Born	4 November 1932(1932-11-04) Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Died	11 December 2008 (aged 76) Singapore
Children	Soraya Alatas, Nadira Alatas Sriwijanarko [1] Fawzia Alatas-Patompo[2]
Occupation	Diplomat
Religion	Islam

Ali Alatas (4 November 1932 – 11 December 2008^[3][4]) was an Indonesian diplomat of Hadhrami descent,^[5][6][7] who served as the country's foreign minister from 1988 to 1999.

Ali Alatas as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1988 - 1999

A trained lawyer who also had a brief stint as a journalist, Alatas joined the Indonesian foreign service in 1954 as a 22-year-old. He was Indonesia's Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 1988, serving three terms under the former Suharto administration and once under the Habibie administration in May 1998,^[8] and served twice as Indonesian ambassador to the United Nations. He was once considered for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations. In his foreign diplomatic capacity, the intellectual advocated regional cooperation and played a crucial role in drafting the ASEAN Charter, and the Constitution of the 10-member grouping the Eminent Persons Group.^[9] He also brokered peace negotiations in several hot spots in Southeast Asia.^[10]

In 2003, Alatas was appointed as the United Nations special envoy. He arrived in Burma on 18 August 2005 for a three-day visit to negotiate the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. He was the first special envoy allowed into the country in more than a year.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to the time of his death, Alatas was chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council (Dewan Pertimbangan Presiden, Wantimpres) in the Yudhoyono Administration.^[11]

On 11 December 2008, Alatas died at 7.30am, at the age of 76 of a heart attack at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore,^[12] with his wife and his three daughters at his bedside. One week before his death, Alatas stopped over in Singapore for treatment to a stroke.^[13]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile at TokohIndonesia.com (In Indonesian)

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