Actress Raline Shah appointed independent director of AirAsia Indonesia

KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian actress Raline Shah has been appointed the independent director of AirAsia Indonesia.

This was announced by AirAsia Group's CEO and co-founder Tan Sri Tony Fernandes  on his Instagram account accompanied by a photograph of Raline.

“Welcome Raline Shah as independent director to AirAsia Indonesia. Diversity has always been our mantra,” he wrote in the photo caption on Tuesday.

Raline was born in Jakarta on March 4, 1984, and lived in the North Sumatran capital of Medan.

She is an actress and a model, having first emerged in the public eye when she took part in the 2008 Putri Indonesia Pageant,  where she was a favourite contestant.

She has starred several movies, including 5 cm, 99 Cahaya di Langit Eropa (99 Lights in the European Sky), Supernova, and Surga yang Tak Dirindukan (a heaven unmissed).

Raline graduated from at the National University of Singapore with a bachelor of arts in political science.

While AirAsia’s hub is situated in Kuala Lumpur, it also has regional branches in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.