Linggawaty Hakim

Linggawaty Hakim (born 19 April 1959) is an Indonesian retired diplomat who last served as ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2014 to 2018. A Padjadjaran University alumni, Linggawaty previously served as the director general for international law and treaties from 2010 to 2014 and ambassador to Sweden and Latvia from 2006 to 2010.

Early life Linggawaty was born in Bandung, Indonesia, on 19 April 1959. She earned her bachelor's degree in law from the Padjadjaran University in 1982. She later obtained a master of international law from the University of Stockholm in Sweden in 1990.

Diplomatic career Linggawaty joined the foreign department upon graduating from Padjadjaran, serving as a staff within the subdirectorate for economic and financial treaties. She underwent a British Council examination in 1984 and junior diplomatic education from 1984 to 1985. After a three-year stint, on 28 December 2005 she became the director for social, cultural, and international organizations of developing countries. Outside the foreign ministry, Linggawaty served as the director of the Non Aligned Movement Centre for South-South Technical Cooperation, which was based in Jakarta, from 2002 to 2006 She arrived in Stockholm on 25 November 2006 and presented her credentials to the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf on 30 November 2006 and the President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on 16 January 2007. During her presentation of credentials to Freiberga, Freiberga expressed her pride in receiving "a woman ambassador from the largest Muslim nation". Linggawaty herself described Freiberga as "Latvia's Thatcher". She also resuming her role as director of the Non-Aligned Movement Centre for South-South Technical Cooperation in May 2010. On 1 July 2011, she was nominated as a candidate for the financial board of the International Seabed Authority. urging regional governments in Indonesia to record cultural heritages in their region in order to prevent it from being claimed by other nations. She also proposed a centralized database of cultural heritage records from all over Indonesia. When the Malaysian government attempted to register Tortor as its traditional heritage dance, Linggawaty urged Malaysia to acknowledge Indonesia as Tortor's country of origin, and sent a diplomatic note as a protest.

Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein On 4 September 2013, Linggawaty was nominated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. After undergoing an assessment by the House of Representative's first commission on 17 September 2013, Linggawaty was sworn in on 24 December 2013. She presented her credentials to the President of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter on 17 March 2014 and to the Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein on 25 April 2014. She announced her departure to the Indonesian community in Switzerland on 18 November 2017.