[citation needed] In 1993, he was appointed Director-General of General Mining, where he gained the respect of both foreign investors and government for efficiency and probity.

[citation needed] The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 was an unprecedented disaster for Indonesia, with some 200,000 dead or missing and a million homeless.

It also witnessed record amounts of aid being promised for reconstruction of the affected regions of Aceh and Nias, both internationally and in Indonesia.

The four years (2005–09)of BRR reconstruction witnessed an unprecedented flow of international and national personnel into a region that had been plagued by insurgency and isolation.

In October 2009, when BRR had completed its task, Kuntoro was appointed head of the Presidential Unit of Development Supervision and Control (familiarly called UKP4).