Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto, also known as Danny Pomanto, (born 30 January 1964) is an Indonesian politician who is the mayor of

Makassar Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...

, the fourth largest extended metropolitan area in Indonesia. Pomanto is a graduate of the faculty of engineering at

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, where he also served as a lecturer prior to holding office.H.E. Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto
at the

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website. Accessed 28 February 2017. He has developed over six hundred architectural designs in over seventy cities and regencies. He was elected as Mayor of Makassar following local elections in 2013, where he won 31.18% of the votes (182,484 votes). He tried to run for a second term in the 2018 election, but his candidacy was disputed and he was declared ineligible to run, with his competitor facing and losing to an empty ballot. He ran again in 2020 with the support of

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and

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, and won a second term after securing 41.3% of votes.

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