Tarmidi Suhardjo (17 March 1948 – 10 October 2012) was an Indonesian politician. He was a member of the

Jakarta Regional House of Representatives The Jakarta Regional House of Representatives (, abbreviated to DPRD Jakarta) is the unicameral legislature of the Indonesian province of Jakarta. It is composed of 106 members who are elected through general elections once every five years, simu ...

, elected in 1999, as part of the

Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (, PDI-P) is a centre to centre-left secular-nationalist political party in Indonesia. Since 2014, it has been the ruling and largest party in the House of Representatives (DPR), having won 110 seat ...

(PDIP). He was part of PDIP's provincial leadership until his removal for his opposition to PDIP's endorsement of governor

Sutiyoso Sutiyoso (born 6 December 1944), nicknamed Bang Yos, is an Indonesian politician and former general. He was Head of the State Intelligence Agency from 2015 to 2016, and was previously Governor of Jakarta from 1997 to 2007. Born in Semarang, Sut ...

's 2002 reelection, with Suhardjo running as his competitor. He left PDIP afterwards and unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the national House of Representatives in 2004 and 2009.

Biography

Tarmidi Suhardjo was born on 17 March 1948 in

Brebes Brebes (, , ) is a regency () in the northwestern part of Central Java province in Indonesia. It covers an area of 1,769.62 km2, and it had a population of 1,733,869 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 1,978,759 at ...

, Central Java. By the 1980s, he had become a member of the

Indonesian Democratic Party The Indonesian Democratic Party (, PDI) was a political party in Indonesia which existed from 1973 to 2003. During the New Order era, the PDI was one of the two state-approved parties, the other being the Islam-based United Development Part ...

(PDI), starting from PDI's local branch at Kebon Pala administrative village in Makasar District, East Jakarta. By 1994, he had become head of the party's

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branch. During PDI's 1993 internal conflict, Suhardjo was a supporter of

Megawati Sukarnoputri Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (; born 23 January 1947) is an Indonesian politician who served as the fifth president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004 and the eighth vice president under President Abdurrahman Wahid from 1999 to 200 ...

. After 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 ...

, Suhardjo joined Megawati's new party the

(PDIP). In the 1999 legislative election, Suhardjo ran for and won a seat in the

, becoming head of PDIP's fraction within the body. He was also a deputy speaker in the body. When incumbent Jakarta governor

was up for reelection in 2002, PDIP's national leadership endorsed him, while local PDIP politicians in Jakarta was opposed due to Sutiyoso's alleged involvement in the

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. Many members instead endorsed Suhardjo as PDIP's candidate, while national party leaders proposed having Suhardjo run for vice governor instead. Suhardjo refused the offer and ran for governor. In the final vote on 11 September, Suhardjo won 13 votes, behind Sutiyoso's 47. In October, Suhardjo was removed from his party leadership roles for defying central party leadership, becoming a regular DPRD member. After his removal from PDIP leadership, Tarmidi left the party and joined Rachmawati Soekarnoputri's Pioneers' Party. He had become head of the party's Jakarta branch by 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for a seat for Jakarta's 1st district in the national House of Representatives in the 2004 legislative election, winning 1,903 votes. He ran again, also unsuccessfully, in the 2009 legislative election as a National People's Concern Party candidate and won 634 votes. He died on 10 October 2012 and was buried at a public cemetery in

on the same day.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suhardjo, Tarmidi 1948 births 2012 deaths Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle politicians People from Brebes Regency Politicians from Jakarta Members of the Jakarta Regional House of Representatives