Djoko Kirmanto

Minister of Public Works - United Indonesia Cabinet

Born on July 5, 1943 in Penging, Central Java, Djoko graduated from Gadjah Mada University in Yo g y a k a r t a and completed his masters in land and water development at IHEDELFT in the Netherlands in 1977. He was appointed in 1997 as assistant to the residential development department head at the Ministry of Public Works during the Soeharto administration. Since 2001, he has held the post of director general of residential affairs at the Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure.