Arief would be sworn in on Friday, the head of state said.
Before being named to head at the attorney general`s office, Arief was deputy attorney general.
Arief would replace Hendarman Supanji who was officially relieved from his position as attorney general on September 24, 2010.
At the time, the president`s special aide for information affairs Heru Lelono said that Supandji`s dismissal was the government`s effort to "appreciate" the Constitutional Court`s decision to end Hendarman Supandji`s term.
Through the presidential letter, Supandji`s position was then taken over by Deputy Attorney General Dharmono until there was a definitive attorney general, he said.
A panel of judges at the Constitutional Court made their final decision last September in response to former justice minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra`s legal challenge of the legitimacy of Hendarman Supandji`s position as attorney general.
The Constitutional Court sustained Yusril`s legal arguments and ruled that Hendarman could no longer serve as attorney general.
In its decision, the court stated that Herdarman Supandji`s term should have ended in October 2009 following the end of President Yudhoyono`s 2004-2009 term.
Since then, Hendarman Supandji, who was appointed in 2007 to replace Abdul Rachman Saleh, had never been re-appointed as a definitive attorney general.
This condition prompted Yusril Ihza Mahendra to challenge the legitimacy of Supandji`s position by requesting a judicial review of an article in the 2004 Attorney General`s Office (AGO) Law.
Yusril`s move by requesting the judicial review of the article that regulated the tenure of the attorney general was related to his fight against the AGO`s allegation that he was involved in the Law and Human Rights Ministry`s online service case.
The AGO had named Yusril and businessman Hartono Tanoesudibyo suspects in a corruption case involving an online service initiated and owned by the ministry.
The Hartono Tanoesudibyo case is related to the Law and Human Rights Ministry`s www.sisminbakum.com website.
The online service`s purpose was to make it easier for the public to register notarized acts and permit registrations.
The website was operated by PT Sarana Rekatama Dinamika (SRD), a company partly owned by Hartono Tanoesudibyo.
The contract between SRD and the Justice and Human Rights Ministry was signed when Yusril headed the ministry.
The contract stated that SRD would get 90 percent of the profits from the online services while the remaining 10 percent-profit would go ministry officials.
The total income reportedly gained by this online service operator from access fees between April 2001 and November 2008 was estimated at Rp420 billion.
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