Ratih Hardjono

Ratih Hardjono (born 6 December 1960) is an Indonesian journalist for Kompas, an author, and a public affairs consultant.

[12] As State Secretary, she worked to promote freedom of the press and is noted as having built the first civilian Presidential office since the fall of Sukarno 35 years prior.

She also dealt with the press and performed administration duties, which included the supervision of 500 civil servants in charge of the maintenance of the presidential residences.

[7] Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of The Australian, has dismissed the spying accusations as having no shred of evidence, and attributes it to internal government politicking against Kim Beazley.

[14] Hardjono resigned in mid-March 2000 with effect from 1 April[11] to prepare for her wedding and to "avoid corruption, collusion, and nepotism".

Hardjono is married to Fajrul Falakh, vice dean of law at Gadjah Mada University, a politician and once deputy chair of the Nahdlatul Ulama[6] with whom she resides in Jakarta[4] and by whom she has twin sons.