Jakarta (ANTARA News) - At the Presidential Palace, on Friday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed eight ambassadors who will be commissioned in various countries.

The newly inducted ambassadors are Budi Bowoleksono to the United States, based in Washington DC; Irmawan Emir to Laos, based in Vientiane; Moenir Ari Soenanda to Peru and Bolivia, based in Lima and Comm. Gen. (Ret.) Ito Sumardi to Myanmar, based in Rangoon.

Also Lieut. Gen. (Ret.) Johny Lumintang to the Philippines, Marshall Islands, and Palau, based in Manila; Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir to Saudi Arabia, based in Riyadh; Burhanudin to Sudan and Eritrea, based in Khartoum; and Suprapto Martosetomo to South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Botswana, based in Pretoria.

(Reporting by Panca Hari Prabowo/INE/KR-BSR/A014)

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