Akhyar Nasution (born 21 July 1966) is an Indonesian politician who served as mayor of Medan between 2019 and 2021, mostly as an acting mayor to replace his predecessor

Dzulmi Eldin Dzulmi Eldin (born July 4, 1960) is the mayor of Medan, North Sumatra. A graduate of Satyagama University's Masters program, he started his career in the government as a section chief in Deli Serdang Regency administration in 1992, before slowly ...

Biography

Nasution was born on 21 July 1966 in Medan, and completed his basic education there. He studied engineering at the

University of North Sumatra The University of Sumatera Utara ( id, Universitas Sumatera Utara) or USU is a public university located in the city of Medan in North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is situated in Padang Bulan, in the Medan Baru subdistrict of Medan, close to the City ...

, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1996, and later a masters and a doctorate also from the same university. He initially began studying physics, but dropped out and briefly worked as a laboratory staff at a cooking oil factory before returning to his studies in 1988. Following his bachelors, he began working at a construction company as a designer and supervisor. In 1999, he was elected into Medan's city council as a PDI-P candidate until 2004. After his term in the legislature, he became self-employed until 2016, when he was elected as Medan's vice-mayor along with

. On 17 October 2019, Nasution was appointed as acting mayor of Medan following the arrest of Eldin for corruption. He would remain as acting mayor for nearly the entirety of the remaining mayoral term, although he was officially sworn in as mayor on 11 February 2021, six days prior to the mayoral term's expiry on 17 February. Nasution had attempted to run for a second term in the 2020 mayoral election, but he was defeated by Bobby Nasution. He had been removed from PDI-P for opposing Bobby's candidacy (which competed with his own), and hence he ran with the support of Demokrat and PKS.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nasution, Akhyar 1966 births Living people People from Medan Democratic Party (Indonesia) politicians Mayors of Medan University of North Sumatra alumni