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Place of Birth: Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia
About Arcandra Tahar
- Arcandra Tahar (born October 10, 1970 in Padang, Indonesia) is the Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia.
- He was formerly Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia on the Working Cabinet.
- He replaced Sudirman Said who was dismissed by President Joko Widodo in a cabinet reshuffle on July 27, 2016.
- Arcandra was officially dismissed as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources on August 15, 2016 following a dual national polemic addressed to him as a minister and made him the minister with the shortest working period in Indonesian history, which is 20 days.
- On October 14, 2016, he was officially inaugurated as Deputy Minister of EMR accompanying Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Ignasius Jonan.
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