Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution (born 5 July 1991) is an Indonesian businessman and politician who currently serves as the mayor of

Medan Medan (; English: ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, as well as a regional hub and financial centre of Sumatra. According to the National Development Planning Agency, Medan is one of the four ma ...

. He is the son-in-law of President

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Early life

Nasution was born on 5 July 1990 in

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, as the last of three siblings in a

Batak Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, ...

family. His father Erwin Nasution had been the president director of state-owned plantations company PTPN IV. Nasution went to elementary school in

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and middle and high schools in

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. He studied

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for university, obtaining his bachelors and masters from the

Bogor Agricultural Institute IPB University (, abbreviated as IPB) is a state-run agricultural university based in the regency of Bogor, Indonesia. The institute began as an agricultural school formed by the Dutch colonial regime in the early 20th century. After independenc ...

Career

In 2011, Nasution began working in the

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industry, initially repairing homes and reselling them, then building some homes and being involved in larger projects. By 2016, he joined the real estate Takke Group as a marketing director through the introduction of his father. Outside of real estate, Nasution had briefly worked as a manager for the football club Medan Jaya in 2014. While studying for his master's degree in Bogor, Nasution met Kahiyang Ayu, daughter of incumbent president

(Jokowi). They dated for around a year after they met in 2015, and the two married in November 2017, through a ceremony in Jokowi's hometown of

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which was attended by some 7,000 live guests and watched by millions of people. Nasution submitted a bid to run as a mayoral candidate for his hometown of Medan in the 2020 Indonesian local elections through Jokowi's political party

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. This caused multiple observers to suggest that a

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was being established, which Nasution denied. In ensuing months, he visited

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chairman

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and

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chairman Zulkifli Hasan to gather support for his candidacy, in addition to registering with

Golkar ) , foundation = , youth = AMPG (Golkar Party Young Force) , women = KPPG (Golkar Party Women's Corps) , newspaper = '' Suara Karya'' (1971–2016) , headquarters = Jakarta , ideology ...

. He had officially become a cadre of PDI-P in March 2020. He was elected as Mayor of Medan in December 2020, after winning 54.5% of the votes and defeating incumbent mayor

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nasution, Bobby 1990 births Living people People from Medan Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle politicians Bogor Agricultural University alumni Joko Widodo People of Batak descent Mayors of Medan