Mohammad Idris Abdul Shomad (born 25 July 1961) is an Indonesian politician who has served as mayor of

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since 2016 until 2025. Active in various

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organizations in Indonesia, he was first elected in the 2015 local elections and was officially made mayor in 2016. Before becoming mayor, he served as deputy between 2011 and 2016.

Personal life

As a child, he studied in a

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-run primary school, before continuing to a

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and later to a

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. After receiving a scholarship in 1982, he went to

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and obtained his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees after 15 years of

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studies at

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Career

After returning to Indonesia, he became a lecturer at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, teaching

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, da'wah, and civilization history. He also acted as a Sharia consultant and taught

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-related subjects at several other universities, including being a lecturer on

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at the

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between 2002 and 2006. He also acted as the secretary-general of IKADI (Indonesian Islamic proselytizing organization) between 2005 and 2015, and the chief of the Depok chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council.

City administration

In the 2010 local elections, he ran as a deputy mayoral candidate with Nur Mahmudi Ismail, who had been mayor of Depok in the 2006-2011 term as the first directly-elected regional leader in Indonesia. The couple won the election, and during their five-year tenure, the city's government received several awards from the central government on sanitation, health, and child-friendliness. In the

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, with Ismail being constitutionally prohibited from getting a third term, Idris ran with

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politician Pradi Supriatna. The pair secured 411,367 votes (59.4%) and defeated a PDIP-supported pair. He was reelected as mayor in the 2020 election with 415,657 votes (55.5%), defeating Pradi who ran as a mayoral candidate. Upon his appointment as mayor in 2016, his first officially issued order was to cease issuing permits for new convenience stores (''minimarket''). After the conviction of Indonesian national and serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga in the United Kingdom, Idris announced that he planned to raid the local

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community in Depok. This announcement was swiftly condemned by human rights activists.

References

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