Gatot Nurmantyo

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General (Ret.) Gatot Nurmantyo
Official portrait, 2015
Commander of the National Armed Forces
In office 8 July 2015 – 8 December 2017
President	Joko Widodo
Preceded by	General Moeldoko
Succeeded by	ACM Hadi Tjahjanto
Chief of Staff of the Army
In office 25 July 2014 – 15 July 2015
President	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Joko Widodo
Preceded by	General Budiman
Succeeded by	General Mulyono
Commander of Army Strategic Command
In office 2 June 2013 – 26 September 2014
President	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Preceded by	Lieutenant General Muhammad Munir
Succeeded by	Lieutenant General Mulyono
Personal details
Born	(1960-03-13) 13 March 1960 (age 64) Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia
Spouse	Enny Trimurti
Alma mater	Indonesian Military Academy
Military service
Allegiance	Indonesia
Branch/service	Indonesian Army
Years of service	1982–2018
Rank	General
Commands	Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army Commander of Army Strategic Command

General (Ret.) Gatot Nurmantyo (born 13 March 1960) is a retired Indonesian Army general who was commander (Panglima) of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) from 8 July 2015 until 8 December 2017.^[1] Previously, he was the 30th Army Chief of Staff from 25 July 2014 after being appointed by President Yudhoyono to replace General Budiman. From 2013 to 2014, he was Commander of Army Strategic Command (Kostrad), replacing Lieutenant General Muhammad Munir.

In June 2015, he was nominated by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to replace TNI commander General Moeldoko, who was nearing retirement age. His appointment was then confirmed by the DPR. In December 2017, as Nurmantyo neared retirement age (in March 2018), the president announced his intention to replace him with Air Force Chief-of-Staff Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto as TNI commander.

Nurmantyo joined government officials and social activists in a march to support religious tolerance during the November 2016 Jakarta protests. Alongside Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa, Indonesian National Police chief Tito Karnavian and Islamic activist Yenny Wahid, he led public support of interfaith unity as a counterbalance to protests against Jakarta's Christian ethnic-Chinese governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama which included elements of intolerance and Sinophobia.^[2][3]