Siswo Pramono is an Indonesian diplomat who is currently the ambassador for the Republic of Indonesia to Australia, posted in Canberra.
He later studied law at Airlangga University in Surabaya, the main state-run university in East Java, with a scholarship from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs before moving to Jakarta to take up an appointment in the ministry.
He holds a Master of Law degree from Monash University in Melbourne and a PhD degree in political science from the Australian National University (ANU) (2003) where he studied in the Research School of Social Sciences.
He has held positions as: Before his appointment as the ambassador designate to Australia, he was the Head/Director-General of the Policy Analysis and Development Agency (PADA) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jakarta.
He has written, for example, about China's Nine-dash line (2016),[4] the future of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (2016),[5] and President Joko Widodo's foreign policy (2019),[6] as well as the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (2021)[7] Pramono presented his credentials to the Governor-General of Australia David Hurley in Canberra on 8 December 2021.