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 main ...

. He is the son-in-law of President Joko Widodo.

Early life

Nasution was born on 5 July 1990 in

North Sumatra North Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Utara) is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Medan. North Sumatra is Indonesia's fourth most populous province after West Java, East Java and ...

, as the last of three siblings in a Batak 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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West Kalimantan West Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city is Pontianak, Indonesia, Pontianak. The province has ...

and middle and high schools in

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. He studied agribusiness 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

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in 2014. While studying for his master's degree in Bogor, Nasution met Kahiyang Ayu, daughter of incumbent president Joko Widodo (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 Surakarta 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

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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 Akhyar Nasution.

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