Sufmi Dasco Ahmad | |
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Second Deputy Speaker of the People's Representative Council | |
Assumed office 1 October 2019 | |
Speaker | Puan Maharani |
Member of the People's Representative Council | |
Assumed office 1 October 2014 | |
Constituency | Banten III |
Personal details | |
Born | Bandung,West Java,Indonesia | 7 October 1967
Spouse | Raden Euis Handayani |
Children | 1 |
Sufmi Dasco Ahmad (born 7 October 1967) is an Indonesian politician and businessman. He currently serves as a Deputy Speaker of the People's Representative Council.
Ahmad was born on 7 October 1967 in Bandung,West Java,as the son of Ahmad Dakyan Suud (died 2024). He completed elementary school in Palembang,middle school in Jakarta,and high school in Manado. After graduating from high school,he enrolled in the engineering department of Pancasila University,studying electrical engineering. He obtained a bachelor's degree from there in 1993,and he later studied law in several other universities. [1]
Ahmad is married to Raden Euis Handayani and has had a daughter,Dinda Ghania Althafunnisa (born 2005),a singer. [2]
After working for some time,Ahmad had done some business with Fadli Zon,and from this connection,he entered politics. Ahmad became a founding member of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra),and in 2008 he was appointed as the chairman of its central committee. [3] Following the 2014 elections,Ahmad was elected into the People's Representative Council,representing the Banten III electoral district with 56,323 votes. [4] In his first term,he was part of the council's third commission on law,human rights,and security, [3] in addition to chairing the body's ethics council. [5] Within Gerindra,he later became a deputy chairman. [6]
In October 2017,Ahmad accused the Indonesian Police of bias against Gerindra. [7] He also stated that communism in Indonesia had the potential to "revive and spread overseas". [8]
Ahmad was reelected to the council from the same district with 99,002 votes following the 2019 elections, [4] and he was appointed as one of the body's deputy speakers. [9]
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