Career
After graduating from the University of Indonesia,Winarno began to work as head of a Puskesmas in Ketungau Hilir district of Sintang Regency. He headed two other Puskesmas in Sintang until 1993,when he was appointed head of Sintang's municipal health department,serving in the post until 1997 when he was brought to the provincial government of West Kalimantan. [1]
He entered electoral politics in 2005,participating as the running mate of Milton Crosby in the regency's first direct election. Crosby and Winarno defeated five other candidates,winning 42,323 votes (25.1%). [1] [3] In 2010,he ran against Crosby as regent,but placed second in the four-way election with 88,990 votes (40.93%),Crosby securing his second term. [4]
Regent
In the 2015 regency election,Winarno made a second run for regent with Askiman as his running mate,defeating two other pairs of candidates. [5] They were sworn in as regent on 17 February 2016. [6] Winarno won reelection for a second term in 2020 with Sudiyanto as running mate,defeating two other candidates including Askiman and winning 114,529 votes (47.95%). [7] Politically,he is a member of the NasDem Party. [8]
Winarno suffered a stroke in 2021,which immobilized him for a time,and in that same year his deputy Sudiyanto died of an illness. During that period,Sintang's regional secretary Yosepha performed much of their duties. [2] In 2024,during a protest against perceived poor waste handling in Sintang following the closure of a landfill in 2021,locals dumped truckloads of waste in front of his office. [9] In 2021,Winarno announced that oil palm plantations in Sintang would be limited to 200 thousand hectares (compared to 170 thousand in 2020),with 865 thousand hectares out of 1.2 million hectares of Sintang's jungle areas being designated as conserved areas. [10]
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