Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat

Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat (21 October 1952 – 28 June 2025) was an Indonesian diplomat. He served as an official in the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs for over two decades.

Sudjadnan held several high-profile positions, including Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2002 to 2006), Ambassador of Indonesia to Australia (2001–2002) and Ambassador to the United States (2006–2009).

In January 2011, Sudjadnan was charged in court for unlawfully authorizing fund disbursement in 2003 to Indonesian Embassy in Singapore when he was Secretary General of the DFA. He was released in October 2011 and received another separate court verdict in 2014 for he was responsible in the DFA budget misappropriation in 2004–2005, for which he served some 20 months in Sukamiskin prison.

Early life and education Sudjadnan was born on 21 October 1952 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He was married with three children.

Sudjadnan graduated from Gadjah Mada University in 1978 with a degree in International Relations. He then joined the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs in 1981 and completed several courses with the department. In 1997 Sudjadnan attended a Master of International Affairs (MIA) Programme at Columbia University, New York City.

Sudjadnan was recalled to Indonesia from Australia in April 2002, promoted to the role of Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs. He served in the role for four years, until the end of 2005, and also acted as Senior Official Meeting Leader for both the Asia Africa Summit and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In addition, he chaired the Third Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting during the treaty’s 2005 review and spoke at many international seminars, workshop etc. mostly on issues relating to international security, non-proliferation and disarmament including at the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference in April 2009.

On 13 January 2006, Sudjadnan was appointed Indonesian Ambassador to the United States.

Corruption charges In 2010, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) implicated Sudjadnan in corruption relating to the renovation of the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore, which had taken place in 2003 while he was Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs. According to Mochamad Slamet Hidayat, who was Indonesian Ambassador to Singapore in 2003, Sudjadnan was accused to have received US$200,000 of the project funds. Facing the anti-corruption court in Jakarta in January 2011, Sudjadnan denied receiving the funds and causing any losses to the State. In the court's verdict he was only found guilty of unlawfully disbursing funds to the embassy in Singapore and was sentenced to 20 months in prison. Sudjadnan's sentence was shortened and he was released from prison early, in October 2011. Sudjadnan was released after serving less than 30 months at Sukamiskin prison.

Death Sudjadnan died in Canberra, Australia on 28 June 2025, at the age of 72.