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YAYAN GANDA HAYAT MULYANA is currently Assistant Special Staff to the President for International Relations. He was born in Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia in July 1966. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (MFA) in 1993. During his career at the MFA, he has served as an Indonesian delegate to the meetings and conferences at various levels of the AAPP, APEC, APPF, ASEM, ASEAN, ASIA-AFRICA, ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, G-77, G20, IPU, NAM, the UN General Assembly and its Main Committees, the UN Security Council, and the UN Human Rights Council. He has also assumed responsibilities in various divisions of the MFA, including Head of the Secretariat for Special Envoys of the President. His first diplomatic posting was at the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the UN in New York (2000 - 2004). The second posting was also at the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the UN in New York, serving as the Political Coordinator of the Indonesian Team to the UN Security Council (2007 - 2008). He then served at the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore as the Coordinator of Information, Social and Cultural Affairs, also as the Spokesperson of the Embassy (2009 – 2010). He graduated cum laude from University of Padjadjaran, Department of International Relations (1992); pursued in the US two master programmes under the Fulbright scholarship (1996 - 1998) and a doctoral programme (2000 - 2004) majoring political science, IR and public administration. He was a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, USA (Spring 2003 – Spring 2004); the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies (Fall 2009 – Spring 2010), City University of New York; and Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School for International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Fall 2010 – Spring 2011). He was awarded the International Affairs Karen D. Jenkins King Award by the Ohio University, USA (1998); was a Class Valedictorian of the Junior-Level (1993) as well as Mid-Career (2005) Diplomatic Training Programme at the Centre for Education and Training, Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also an Alumnus of the Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme, Den Haag, the Joint Programme SIPA Columbia University-UNITAR POCI on UN Studies, New York, the Peace Operations and Conflict Resolutions Programme of the Institute of World Affairs, Washington, DC. He is a contributor to various journals and newspapers, including the Jakarta Post and the Jakarta Globe. He is married to Irene Irjayanti Mulyana.   | Photos | Jul 2, 2009 |
a wife is the joy of a man's heart
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Family means putting your arms around each other and being there
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