Ryamizard Ryacudu

General (Ret.) Ryamizard Ryacudu (born 21 April 1950, Palembang, South Sumatra ) is the present Minister of Defense of Indonesia, in office since 2014 as part of the cabinet of President Joko Widodo. He previously served as Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army from 2002 to 2005, and he was Commander of Army Strategic Command (Kostrad), from 2000 to 2002.

In 2016 Ryacudu stated that the suspected communists killed in the 1965-1966 massacres "deserved to die". He also said the same year that the rise of the gay rights movement was more dangerous than nuclear war.