Ratu Atut Chosiyah
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Ratu Atut Chosiyah is the current governor of Banten
, Indonesia
. She was inaugurated on 11 January 2007 along with her deputy governor, Mohammad Masduki by the Minister of Interior Muhammad Ma'ruf.
Prior to her election to the seat of governor, she was the deputy governor under Djoko Munandar from 11 January 2002. Munandar was then involved in a corruption case and was removed, and Chosiyah then became the caretaker governor and then governor. She is the first female governor in Indonesia.
Banten
Banten is a province of Indonesia in Java. Formerly part of the Province of West Java, it was made a separate province in 2000.The administrative center is Serang. Preliminary results from the 2010 census counted some 10.6 million people.-Geography:...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
. She was inaugurated on 11 January 2007 along with her deputy governor, Mohammad Masduki by the Minister of Interior Muhammad Ma'ruf.
Prior to her election to the seat of governor, she was the deputy governor under Djoko Munandar from 11 January 2002. Munandar was then involved in a corruption case and was removed, and Chosiyah then became the caretaker governor and then governor. She is the first female governor in Indonesia.