Career
He continued to work odd jobs after graduating high school,including as a porter up until sometime after his marriage. He then worked as a truck driver,a merchant,a gold miner,and a fuel reseller. In 2006,his employer provided him with capital to start a rubber trading business,and Gregorius soon expanded to wild mushrooms. By 2009,he had begun investing in oil palm plantations,and started a stone crushing plant which benefitted from the construction of a new airport and new rubber processing plants in Sintang. [2]
In 2014,Gregorius ran for a seat in Sintang's Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) as a Gerindra Party member,and won a seat. [3] In the following election in 2019,Gregorius ran for a seat in the provincial legislature of West Kalimantan,winning a seat after securing 16,867 votes. [4] He would be reelected for a second term in the 2024 election. [5]
Before he was sworn in for a second term,Gregorius opted to run in the 2024 regency election for Sintang. [5] With Sintang's DPRD speaker Florensius Ronny from Nasdem as his running mate,Gregorius ran with the support of Gerindra,Nasdem,PKB,Perindo,and PSI. [6] [7] Gregorius and Ronny won the election with 102,046 votes (40.9%), [6] and they were sworn in on 20 February 2025. [8]
As regent,Gregorius launched a social security program for oil palm workers in Sintang funded by revenue shares from the palm companies. [9]
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