Hadi Tjahjanto
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| Born |
November 8, 1963 Malang, East Java, Indonesia |
| Allegiance |
 Indonesia
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| Service/ |
 Indonesian Air Force
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| Years of service | 1986−present |
| Rank |
 Air chief marshal
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| Commands held | Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force. Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Defence. Military Secretary of the President of Indonesia. Abdul Rachman Saleh Air Base Commander. |
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Hadi Tjahjanto (born November 8, 1963) is an air chief marshal in the Indonesian Air Force who is presently the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. An alumnus of the Indonesian Air Force Academy and Flight School, he was appointed by president Joko Widodo in 2017 as the Commander of the Armed Forces (Panglima).
Formerly also a military secretary to President Joko Widodo, the president nominated him to the People's Representative Council as the sole candidate for the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (Panglima TNI), replacing Gatot Nurmantyo. He was formally appointed on 8 December 2017.
Hadi's father Bambang Sudardo served as a personnel in Abdurrahman Saleh airbase, motivating him to join the Air Force Academy following his graduation from high school. He became a pilot after completing the academy and flight school by 1987, initially becoming a pilot in the same airfield his father served at Malang.
After several years of operating CASA light airlift planes, he was promoted to squadron training officer in 1993, and began operating heavier planes by 1996. He was squadron commander by 1997, moving to Adisumarmo Airport in Surakarta and later to Adisucipto as he continued going up the ranks. Between 2010-2011, he was commander of the Adisumarmo airbase, where he became familiar with then-mayor of Surakarta Joko Widodo. He continued to be the spokesman of the air force (2013) and commander at Abdurrahman Saleh (2015). After Jokowi's election, he was appointed military secretary to the president on 25 July 2015 and obtained a promotion to air vice-marshal.
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