Budi Gunawan

Budi Gunawan is an Indonesian police officer. He has served as Chief of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency (BIN) since 9 September 2016. He is also chairman of the executive board of E-Sport Indonesia, tasked to develop e-sports in Indonesia. Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Indonesian National Police to General Badrodin Haiti since 22 April 2015 and Police General Tito Karnavian since 13 July 2016, until he was appointed chief of BIN. On 2 September 2016, President Jokowi named Budi Gunawan to become BIN chief to replace Sutiyoso and sent a letter to the DPR. He passed a fit and proper text conducted by the DPR Commission I and was then approved by a DPR plenary session. Budi Gunawan became the second policeman after General Sutanto (2009–2011) to lead BIN. He was also an aide to politician Megawati Sukarnoputri in 1999-2004.