Tanribali Lamo
Achmad Tanribali Salim Lamo (born 15 November 1952) is an Indonesian military officer and bureaucrat who became the Director General of National Unity and Politics in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Tanribali also held several acting governorships during his tenure in the ministry. Early life Tanribali was born on 15 November 1952 in Bone Regency. His father, Achmad Lamo, was the Governor of South Sulawesi for two periods and former Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly. He started his education at the People's School (equivalent to elementary school) in 1958 and finished in 1964. He then attend junior high school and high school in Makassar, where he finished in 1970. Tanribali entered the National Armed Forces Academy in 1970, four years after his father became governor. He graduated from the academy with the rank of second lieutenant on 16 December 1974. Military career Tanribali started his military career as a platoon commander in the Siliwangi (West Java) Military Regional Command. He was rotated a year later to serve at the Hasanuddin (South Sulawesi) Military Regional Command—his father's province—and held various positions in the military region's personnel section. After six years in the province, he was sent as a teacher and taught at the Adjutant General Education Center. Tanribali was transferred again in 1991 to the Jaya (Jakarta) Military Region Command, where he became the deputy adjutant general and later adjutant general to the military region's commander. Tanribali ended his tenure at the military region in 1995 and became the Superintendent of the Adjutant General Education Center. During his tenure as superintendent, Lamo gave a titular rank of lieutenant colonel to Idris Sardi who taught music in the Adjutant General Education Center. Tanribali then became the Deputy Assistant for Personal Affairs to the Army Chief of Staff with the rank of brigadier general in 2001 and was promoted to major general in 2003 and become the Assistant for Personnel Affairs to the Army Chief of Staff. After his resignation from the office of assistant, Tanribali was replaced by Aryono Murtamadinata. Bureaucratic career Acting Governor of South Sulawesi Background The 2007 South Sulawesi gubernatorial election, which was held on 5 November 2007, saw the incumbent governor Amin Syam and vice governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo running on a separate ticket for the governor office. Limpo won the elections, but Syam disputed the results of the elections. As Syam's term came closer to end, speculations arise as to who would become the acting governor. The popular names that became the candidate for the office were the Director General of Regional Autonomy Sodjuangon Situmorang and former commander of the Brawijaya Military Regional Command Syamsul Mapparepa. In an unexpected move, Minister of Home Affairs Mardiyanto appointed Tanribali instead. As the governor's office could not be held by an on duty military officer, Tanribali was sworn in first as expert staff to the minister on 19 January 2008. His swearing in as an expert staff marked his "transfer of status" from a military officer to a