Ahmad Kanedi (born 24 December 1961) is an Indonesian politician who is currently a member of the

Regional Representative Council The Regional Representative Council (, DPD; alternatively translatable as the House of Regions or the House of Regional Representatives or the Senate of Indonesia), is one of two parliamentary chambers in Indonesia. Together with the House o ...

, representing

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. He was the mayor of the city of

between 2007 and 2012.

Career

Kanedi was born in

on 24 December 1961 and he studied law at the University of Bengkulu, obtaining his master's degree from there. He is of

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descent. Between 1999 and 2002, he served as a legislator in Bengkulu's Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD). He won in Bengkulu city's mayoral election in 2007. However, he lost his 2012 reelection to

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, winning 70,812 (48.54%) votes. He ran as a senator representing Bengkulu in the 2014 legislative election and secured a seat, winning the most votes among other senatorial candidates from the province. Kanedi was suspect in a graft case, but his suspect status was cancelled in 2015. Kanedi was reelected for a second term in the 2019 election. He ran for a third term in

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, but failed to win a seat.

References

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