Retno Marsudi

Retno Marsudi (born 27 November 1962) is an Indonesian diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs under President Joko Widodo from 2014 to 2024, the first woman appointed to the post; she was previously ambassador to the Netherlands from 2012 to 2014 and to Iceland and Norway from 2005 to 2008 ¹.

Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi was born on 27 November 1962 in Semarang, Central Java, the eldest of the five children of Moch Sidik, a high school teacher and veteran soldier, and Retno Werdiningsih, a high school employee ^{1 2}. She graduated from SMAN 3 Semarang and studied international relations at Gadjah Mada University, graduating in 1985, and later took a master's in International European Law and Policy at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in 2000 ¹.

Marsudi joined the foreign ministry in 1987, served at the embassy in Canberra from 1990 to 1992 and at The Hague from 1997 to 2000, and directed West European affairs from 2004 to 2005 ¹. As ambassador to Norway and Iceland from 2005 she received the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in 2011, the first Indonesian to receive it, and as ambassador to the Netherlands from 2012 she led multilateral negotiations and consultations with the EU, ASEM and FEALAC ¹. Appointed foreign minister on 27 October 2014 and reappointed in 2019, she co-chaired the COVAX AMC Engagement Group in 2021 and in 2023 headed Indonesia's Office of Special Envoy to Myanmar for ASEAN, pressing for the Five-Point Consensus ¹. In 2024 UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed her his Special Envoy on Water ¹. No text read for this record names a faith for Retno Marsudi herself — the articles are silent, and Wikidata's generic Islam statement is structured data that settles nothing and names no school — so her faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 3 2}.

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