Sri Parmini

Sri Parmini (born 12 September 1956) is a retired officer of the Indonesian Army. She served as Head of the and was the third woman to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the Indonesian Army.

Parmini was born in a non-military family. She spent her childhood in Boyolali and began her career as an officer in the Indonesian Army Women's Corps after graduating from Sebelas Maret University. She served in various roles, including positions at the Army Women Corps Education Centre, , and the Kodam Jayakarta, before working as an aide officer in Army Headquarters in 2005. Four years later, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, where she served as an expert officer for the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief. Subsequently, she was transferred to the position of Head of General Secretariate of the Indonesian Armed Forces Headquarters from February to December 2013. After completing her term in this position, she continued to work as a special staff officer for the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army until her retirement.

Childhood and education

Parmini was born on 12 September 1956 in Boyolali, Central Java, as the eldest of four siblings. Her father was a primary school teacher, while her mother was a housewife who supported the family by trading in mining products. She was raised in Boyolali and completed her elementary to high school education in her hometown.

After graduating from high school, she pursued higher education at the Department of Social Education, Faculty of Education, at Sebelas Maret University. Before her graduation, she accidentally came across a brochure from the Surakarta Military District Command regarding an opportunity to join the Indonesian Army Women's Corps for women who had already completed higher education. She tried to register because she always had an ambition to become a soldier when she was a child.

When Parmini tried to register to be a candidate in the Army Women's Corps, the registration process was already closed. However, a noncommissioned officer named Koesnan assisted her in registering. Parmini subsequently underwent a selection process that spanned several days in Bandung and was accepted as a candidate officer for the Army Women's Corps after successfully passing the selection.

Parmini shook hands with the Chief of Staff of the Army, , after reporting her promotion on 15 February 2010.

In 1995, Parmini was instructed to undergo advanced military education at the Indonesian Army Command And General Staff College within the Kodam Jaya, which raised her rank to lieutenant colonel. During the appointment, she was promoted to the rank of colonel in 2001. Her reassignment was accompanied by the promotion of her rank to brigadier general. Indonesian National Armed Forces called this promotion a "special gift for Indonesian Army Women's Corps", coinciding with its recent celebration of 48 years of Indonesian Army Women's Corps on 22 December 2009. She became the third woman to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the Indonesian Army, following Kartini Hermanus and Hermawati

Parmini served as a special staff to the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces for three years. On 23 January 2013, she was reassigned to the position of Head of the General Secretariate of the Indonesian Armed Forces Headquarters. She was inaugurated into this position on 25 February 2013. During her tenure, the General Secretariate of the Indonesian Armed Forces Headquarters issued several guidelines signed by Parmini, including "Petunjuk Administrasi Tentang Administrasi Umum TNI", which pertains to administration within the Indonesian Armed Forces and "Petunjuk Teknis Penggunaan Bahasa Dalam Tulisan Dinas Di Lingkungan TNI", which pertains to the use of language in official documents within the Indonesian Armed Forces.

Just nine months after her inauguration, on 18 November 2013, the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces issued a decree transferring Parmini from her position to become the Special Staff to the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army. This decision was implemented after Parmini handed over her position to on the last day of 2013. Parmini retired from the military in 2014 and joined the Retired Indonesian Army Women Association in Jabodetabek as its chairwoman in 2017.

Personal life Parmini met her husband, Achmad Kaelani, when she was serving as an instructor at the Army Women's Corps Education Centre. Kaelani came from a family with a career in the Indonesian Air Force and often visited the office where Parmini worked to see his sibling. Parmini and Kaelani married in 1984 and had a daughter and a son. Their daughter, Ratih Pujiati, was born in the mid-1980s, while their son, Arif Widyatmoko, was born in the early 1990s. Parmini's job as an army officer often separated her from her family, and she could only see them in person on weekends because her family lived in Jakarta. They started living together in 2008 when Parmini was transferred to Jakarta.

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