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H.E. Mr. Imron Cotan was born
on December 21, 1954 and is married to Mrs. Sri Nuraeni Cotan
and they have two daughters and a son. He graduated from the Faculty
of Socio-Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta
- the oldest university in Indonesia - majoring in international
relations in 1982.
In 1983 Mr. Cotan joined the Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA) that has ever since assigned and entrusted him with
various duties and responsibilities. Immediately after graduating
from DFA's diplomatic course for junior diplomats (1984), he was
assigned to supervise Indonesia's bilateral cooperation with friendly
countries in the field of environmental preservation. In 1986
he was sent to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia
to UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland, as third secretary, entrusted
to handle matters related to intellectual property rights. In
1989 he was instructed to participate in the UN Disarmament Fellowship
Program to familiarize himself with those intricate issues of
the maintenance of international peace and security before taking
up a new position as chief of disarmament section, Directorate
of International Organizations, Directorate General for Political
Affairs - DFA Jakarta. He functioned as such for two years.
In 1992 he was again sent to Indonesia's Permanent
Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, as second secretary and afterward
promoted to first secretary to become the section chief for international
peace and security affairs during which he was intensively involved
with, and engaged in, various negotiating forums such as, inter
alia, the Conference on Disarmament, Chemical Weapons Convention
(CWC) Conferences, Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Conferences,
and Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review and Extension Conferences
(1992-1997) and, UN General Assembly (1986-2001). During the NPT
Review and Extension Conference (1995), Mr. Cotan was the spokesman
for the Non-Aligned Movement as well as Indonesia's chief negotiator
in Main Committee I dealing with issues related not only to the
review and extension of the NPT, but also to the maintenance of
international peace and security, especially weapons of mass-destruction
issues.
Returning to DFA in Jakarta (1997), Mr. Cotan briefly
served as Deputy Director for Mass Media, Directorate of Information,
Directorate General for Socio-cultural Relations whose primary
responsibility was to monitor as well issue permits for foreign
correspondents or journalists operating in Indonesia. In 1998,
he was promoted as Deputy Assistant to the Minister State Secretary
for Political Affairs, State Secretariat (Office of the President)
responsible for policy formulation on a wide-range of issues pertinent
to Indonesia's foreign relations. In 2000 this office was liquidated
and transformed into the Bureau for International Studies that
Mr. Cotan also had the honor to become its first director. During
this period, President Megawati Soekarnoputri accorded Mr. Cotan
'Satya Wirakarya' Medal of Honor, acknowledging his outstanding
services rendered to the nation, Indonesian government and its
people. On May 2002, he was appointed as Minister/Deputy Chief
of Mission of the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, Australia.
He was recalled to Jakarta, August 2003, and briefly
served as Senior Official seconded to the Indonesian Minister
for Foreign Affairs. He was later on appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to the Commonwealth
of Australia and presented his Letters of Credence to the Governor
General of Australia, Major-General Michael Jefferry, at Government
House, Canberra, on November 28, 2003.
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