Paula Bataona Renyaan Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2006, Renyaan was diagnosed with breast cancer. During this period, Renyaan stayed in her house at Ngagel Street, Surabaya, for treatment. Renyaan died on 4 November 2007 in Surabaya, East Java.

In 1995, Renyaan was promoted from colonel to brigadier general. She became the third female police officer to hold the rank after Jeanne Mandagi and Roekmini. She officially retired from the police four years later on 8 July 1999 in a ceremony led by Police Chief Roesmanhadi at the Semarang Tri Brata Police Academy.

After her term ended in 1992, she was appointed as the member of the People’s Representative Council by the Armed Forces in 1992, and again in 1997. She relinquished her membership of the People’s Representative Council on 15 August 1998. She was succeeded by female police officer Brigadier General Noldy Ratta, who was inaugurated on 14 October 1998.

At the special session of the Regional People’s Representative Council of Maluku on 5 August 1998, the council unanimously approved the nomination of Renyaan as the vice governor of Maluku for the 1998–2003 term. She was inaugurated as vice governor on 19 September 1998 by Minister of Internal Affairs Syarwan Hamid. Her inauguration made her the first woman to hold the office of vice governor in Indonesia.

After her appointment as the member of the People’s Representative Council in 1991, she did not hold any police offices.

On 1 February 1991, Renyaan was inaugurated by Speaker Kharis Suhud as an interim replacement member of the People’s Representative Council from the Armed Forces faction. She replaced the retired Colonel Sadikoen Soegih Waras.

After graduating from the university, Renyaan was assigned her first job in the city of Surabaya, East Java. She began her career there as the head of the Women’s Guidance Section and was promoted to commander of the Community Guidance Unit. She left the city in 1983 following a transfer to the city of Ambon, Maluku. She was assigned for two years in Ambon as the assistant for the Community Guidance and returned to East Java following a promotion to colonel in 1985.

Renyaan was married to Joseph Petrus Bataona, a sailor. She married him in 1970. They had two children, Elizabeth and Victor Bataona.

She began her education at the university’s basic training in Sukabumi in 1963. After that, she trained in Porong and Ujungpandang and finished with a second lieutenant rank in 1966. She enrolled on a baccalaureate and doctoral program in 1966. She graduated in 1971 with a doctoral degree.

Following her graduation from the Ambon Senior High School in 1962, Renyaan was accepted at a biology academy in Bogor, and had rented a boarding house for the purpose. However, she changed her mind when she read a brochure about the University of Police Sciences (PTIK, Perguruan Tinggi Ilmu Kepolisian). She enrolled herself at the university at the local police station, and was accepted after finishing a series of procedures and tests.

Paula Bataona Renyaan (16 September 1942 – 4 November 2007) was an Indonesian police general and politician. She was the first woman to hold the office of Vice Governor in Indonesia, serving as the Vice Governor of Maluku from 1998 to 2003.

Renyaan was born on 16 September 1942 in Saumlaki, Southeast Maluku. She was born as the fifth and youngest child of Kresensia Rebanyo, a Filipino, and Petrus Paulus Renyaan, a Moluccan. She graduated from the People’s School (equivalent to elementary school) in 1955, from the Junior High School in 1958, and from the Ambon Senior High School in 1962.