Adang Sudrajat (23 October 19624 July 2021) was an Indonesian medical doctor and elected official for the

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in the

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(DPR-RI) and

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city council. His second term in the DPR-RI ended abruptly due to his death from

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in July 2021.

Early life and education

Adang was born in

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, a regency in the

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province, on 23 October 1962. He attended the No. 5 Janggala Elementary School from 1969 until 1975. He moved to

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shortly after and entered the No. 1 Tasikmalaya Junior High School on the same year. He graduated from the junior high school in 1978 and returned to Ciamis afterwards. In 1981, he completed his high school education and entered the medical faculty of the Padjajaran University, where he studied until he graduated in 1987.

Medical career

Adang moved to

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a year after his graduation from the university and became the head of the

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at the Aceh Langsa Hospital. Three years into his job at this hospital, Adang decided to return to West Java. He then became the deputy director of the human resources department at the Al Islam Hospital, a local hospital in the capital of West Java. After he was rotated through various posts, he became the deputy director of several departments in the hospital.

Political career

In the Prosperous Justice Party

Adang entered politics following the

fall of Suharto On 21 May 1998, Suharto resigned as president of Indonesia following protests and riots across the country against his regime. His vice president, B. J. Habibie, took over the presidency. Suharto's grip on power weakened following severe ...

in 1998, when he joined the newly formed

. He was chosen as the chairman of the party's Bandung branch shortly afterwards. He held the chairmanship for a brief period; the following year, he became a member of the executive council of the party's West Java branch.

Legislative career

Adang was elected as a member of the Bandung city council in the

2004 Indonesian legislative election Legislative elections were held in on 5 April 2004 for both houses of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia. This included all 550 seats in the People's Representative Council and 128 seats of the newly formed Regional Representative C ...

. Along with other council members, he was sworn in on 5 August 2004. Less than two years later, on 4 May 2006, Adang filed a resignation letter to the council. He officially resigned after being approved by the Governor of West Java on 12 January 2007. Several years later, Adang decided to run in the

2014 Indonesian legislative election Legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 9 April 2014 to elect 136 members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD), 560 members of the People's Representative Council (DPR) and members of regional assemblies at the provincial and rege ...

as a candidate for the

. Although he was not elected as an MP, he obtained the second highest number of votes in the West Java II electoral district. He was therefore put forward as the replacement of MP Ma'mur Hasanuddin, the candidate with the highest number of votes in West Java II, who died on 6 April 2015. His nomination was approved and Adang was installed as a member of the People's Representative Council on 4 June 2015. Adang decided to run again for a second term in the People's Representative Council. He was elected to the council and became one of seven members of the council with a medical background. He was seated in the Commission IX of the People's Representative Council, which handles demographic affairs, health, manpower and transmigration.

Death

On 30 June 2021, Adang was brought to the Edelweis Hospital in

after being diagnosed as

positive. He died in the hospital on 4 July 2021.

References

{{Reflist 1962 births 2021 deaths People from Ciamis Regency People from Cidolog (Ciamis) District Padjadjaran University alumni Prosperous Justice Party politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Indonesia), 2014 Members of the House of Representatives (Indonesia), 2019 Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia