Amat Antono (born 5 October 1958) is an Indonesian politician who served as the regent of

Pekalongan Regency Pekalongan Regency is a regency ( id, kabupaten) on the north coast of Central Java province in Indonesia. It covers an area of 836.13 km2 and had a population of 838,621 at the 2010 censusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 968,821 at t ...

, Central Java for two terms, 2001–2006 and 2011–2016. Initially elected as regent of his home regency through a legislative vote, he lost in its first direct election to his deputy Siti Qomariyah before defeating her in 2011.

Background

Amat Antono was born in Tegaldowo village, Tirto subdistrict,

on 5 October 1958. He graduated from

Diponegoro University Diponegoro University ( jv, ꦈꦤꦶꦥ꦳ꦼꦂꦱꦶꦠꦱ꧀ꦢꦶꦥꦤꦼꦒꦫ; id, Universitas Diponegoro, abbreviated as Undip) is a public university in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. Founded in 1957 as a private university by th ...

with a bachelor's degree in 1984, and later a master's degree in 2006. His wife Arini Harimurti was elected as vice regent in the 2016 local election. The couple has two children.

Career

Before entering politics, Antono was a bureaucrat, working in the transmigration body at

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. In 2001, he ran as a regent for his home regency with local academician Siti Qomariyah as his running mate, and the pair was voted 27-18 into office following a heated two-stage vote at the regency's legislative council. In 2006, he ran for reelection against Qomariyah in Pekalongan's first direct regency election. Although he received the support of a coalition of 15 political parties including his party

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, he would lose to Qomariyah, winning 207,705 votes to Qomariyah's 227,137. Between his terms, he served in several offices, including head of an inter-regency coordination body, briefly as the acting regent of

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, and as a special staff to the governor. He ran once more in 2011 and this time won 254,762 votes (54.75%), defeating Qomariyah following a campaign which strongly focused on infrastructure development programs. During his second term, he released a legislation prohibiting the hunting of snakes. His second term expired on 27 June 2016, as he could not run for reelection due to term limits. In the 2019 legislative election, Antono ran as a

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candidate for the People's Representative Council from Central Java's 10th electoral district.

References

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