Tri Adhianto Tjahyono (born 3 January 1970) is an Indonesian politician 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 ...

who is the mayor of

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, serving since February 2025. He had previously been elected as deputy mayor in 2018, and later served as acting mayor (briefly full mayor) between 2022 and 2023.

Early life and career

Tri Adhianto Tjahyono was born in

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on 3 January 1970 as the third child of G Soeprapto and Endang Sri Guntur Hudiani. He studied in Jakarta, graduating high school in 1989. He then worked as a government employee within the Ministry of Transportation before moving to

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's municipal government. During his time there, he earned bachelors' and masters' degrees from

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. He then relocated to

, where he rose up the ranks of the municipal government. By 2017, he was head of the city's public works department.

Political career

In Bekasi's 2018 mayoral election, Tri became the running mate of incumbent mayor Rahmat Effendi, and the pair was elected with around 68 percent of votes. They were sworn in on 20 September 2018. In 2019, Tri was elected as chairman of PDI-P in Bekasi. Prior to joining PDI-P that year, he had been a member of the

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(PAN) for less than two years, and prior to that, he had also been a member of

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and Demokrat. On 6 January 2022, Effendi was arrested by the

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, and the following day Tri was appointed as acting mayor. He was appointed as full mayor on 22 August 2023, after Effendi's trial concluded. Less than one month later, his term as mayor ended on 20 September 2023, and he was replaced by Raden Gani Muhammad as acting mayor. Tri ran for a full term in the 2024 Bekasi mayoral election, with West Java provincial legislator Abdul Harris Bobihoe as running mate. The pair won the election with 459,430 votes (47.06%) in the three-way race.

References

{{reflist 1970 births 21st-century mayors of places in Indonesia Living people Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle politicians Politicians from Jakarta Mayors of Bekasi Vice mayors of places in Indonesia Lampung University alumni