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Chapter 1

Diplomat’s Diary: From Udayana University to Global Stage

I G NGURAH Swajaya, known as Ngurah Swajaya is the first
Indonesian Ambassador/Permanent Representative of the Republic of
Indonesia to ASEAN after the entry into force of the ASEAN Charter
and the establishment of Committee of Permanent Representative to
ASEAN. Currently he serves as the Ambassador of Indonesia to the
Republic of Singapore. Prior to the ASEAN assignment, Ambassador
Ngurah Swajaya served as the Ambassador of Indonesia to the
Kingdom of Cambodia.

Ambassador Swajaya joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1986
through a direct recruitment process by the Ministry to the University
of Udayana in Bali and got his first assignment overseas as the Third
Secretary at the Indonesian Embassy to the Federal Republic of
Germany, in Bonn (1991-1995). He was later assigned at the Indonesian
Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN), in New York, USA
(1999 - 2003). At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he had served as the
Director for Multilateral Economic and Environment Cooperation, and
the Director for ASEAN Political Security Cooperation.

Ngurah Swajaya was sworn in by the President of the Republic of
Indonesia, Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as the Ambassador

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