Tjahjo Kumolo. was an Indonesian politician who served as Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform from 1957 to 1978. He previously served as Minister of Home Affairs in President Joko Widodo’s Working Cabinet from 2014 to 2019. He was a longtime loyalist of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri and a senior member of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). He was Secretary-General of PDI-P between 2010 and 2015,
Kumalo is married to Erni Guntarti, with whom he has three children. His wife and first two children are both doctors, while his third child is an actress and his fourth a flight attendant.
Tjahjo Kumolo parents: Bambang Soebandiono, Toeti Slemoon
Kumalo was born in Surakarta (often referred to as Solo) on 1 December 1957. He attended school for 12 years in the larger city of Semarang and lived in the Mlatiharjo administrative village (kelurahan) on the eastern side of the city. His father, Bambang Soebandiono, was a lieutenant in the Indonesian Army.
Both his father and his mother Toeti Slemoon had at some point sat in the People’s Representative Council, the former having served five terms.
