Agung Laksono
Agung Laksono Agung Laksono is the coordinating minister for people's welfare in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet and a member of the Golkar Party. Previously, he was the Speaker of Indonesia People's Representative Council (DPR) from 2004 to 2009. In December 2004, during the Golkar convention, he was also elected as vice-chairman of the party. Laksono is a supporter of Iran's nuclear program. He was a co-founder of Adam Air, a now defunct commercial airline, which was heavily embroiled in corruption and safety violation. Adam Air was closed down after a series of accidents. He holds a degree from of Indonesia School of the Christian University Medicine. Laksono is known for his brash condescendence and overtly harsh remarks towards Singapore, especially with regards to the island republic's diplomatic calls to the Indonesian government to curb the acrid trans-boundary haze that shrouds large areas of Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore annually as a resul...