Career
She began working for Jakarta's provincial government in 1985. She was promoted multiple times,and by 1997 she was head of the culture and mental coaching in Jakarta's educational department. [1] Shortly before the fall of Suharto,Sylviana also served in the Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council between 1997 and 1999. [3] After the stint as a legislator,she returned to her bureaucratic work,being appointed head of the social development department until 2001,head of the population and civil registration office until 2004,and head of elementary education until 2008. [1]
On 1 April 2008,she was appointed as the mayor of Central Jakarta. She became the first woman to serve as mayor of Jakarta's five administrative cities. [4] Saefullah was appointed to replace her on 4 November 2010. [5] She was later proposed as a potential candidate for regional secretary (the highest bureaucratic office in Jakarta) in 2014,but was passed over in favor of Saefullah,and Sylviana was instead appointed governor's deputy for tourism and culture. [1]
In order to run as Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono's running mate in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election,she resigned from her civil servant job in September 2016. [1] The pair was defeated in the first round of the election,and Sylviana instead ran as a Jakarta senatorial candidate for the 2019 legislative election. [6] She was elected into the Regional Representative Council with 455,182 votes,ranking fourth in Jakarta out of an allotment of four senators. [7] She unsuccessfully ran for a second term in the 2024 election,placing fifth in Jakarta with only four senators elected. [8]
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
