Justiar Noer

Justiar Noer was born in the town of Toboali on 23 December 1950 to M. Noer and Ratnasari. After completing middle school there in 1966, he would move to Pangkalpinang for high school where he graduated in 1970. He then studied architecture in Bandung, receiving a diploma in 1976. He would later received bachelor's degrees in architecture and civil engineering, along with a master's in management. Noer had begun to work as an architect since 1973 during his study in Bandung. In 1981, he was appointed as resident engineer for a development project in Bengkulu, and he would join Bengkulu's civil service as part of its public works department. By 1998, he had become head of the department's public housing unit before he was reassigned to South Sumatra in 2000, and then to the Bangka Regency municipal government in 2001. In 2004, Noer was appointed acting regent of South Bangka Regency.