# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sjafrie-sjamsoeddin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:42:08.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sjafrie-sjamsoeddin"
name: "Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin"
slug: "sjafrie-sjamsoeddin"
description: "General (Hon.) (Ret.) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin is an Indonesian army officer and politician serving as the 27th minister of defense since 2024. From 2010 to 2014, he served as deputy minister of defense. He was once Suharto's bodyguard and one of his most loyal confidants until his downfall and also an old friend of Indonesia's incumbent president Prabowo Subianto, who was his classmate at the military academy."
tagline: "Indonesian politician (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2025_Sjafrie_Sjamsoeddin_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Indonesia"
  isoCode: "ID"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1952-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.61
  momentum:             4.2190318158863
  historical:           5.509524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  195
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جعفري شمس الدين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjafrie_Sjamsoeddin"
    title: "Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjafrie_Sjamsoeddin"
    title: "Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjafrie_Sjamsoeddin"
    title: "Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjafrie_Sjamsoeddin"
    title: "Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12515621"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump