Rohidin Mersyah (born 9 January 1970) is an Indonesian politician who has served as governor of

Bengkulu Bengkulu is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southwest coast of Sumatra. It was formed on 18 November 1968 by separating out the former Bencoolen Residency area from the province of South Sumatra under Law No. 9 of 1967 and was fi ...

since December 2018.

Early life

Mersyah was born in the village of Gelumbang, in

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, South Bengkulu, on 9 January 1970 as the fifth child of nine. He completed his basic education in South Bengkulu, before studying

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Gadjah Mada University Gadjah Mada University ( jv, ꦈꦤꦶꦥ꦳ꦼꦂꦱꦶꦠꦱ꧀ꦓꦗꦃꦩꦢ; id, Universitas Gadjah Mada, abbreviated as UGM) is a Public university, public research university located in Sleman Regency, Sleman, Yogyakarta (special region) ...

Career

In 2010, Mersyah ran as a vice-regent candidate for the

South Bengkulu Regency South Bengkulu ( id, Bengkulu Selatan) is a regency (Indonesia), regency of Bengkulu Province, Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra. It covers 1,186.10 km2, and had a population of 142,940 at the 2010 Census and 166,249 ay the 2020 Census. Adminis ...

. Initially, him and the regent candidate Reskan Effendi lost the election with just 48.06% of votes, but following a lawsuit to the

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their opponent was disqualified as he had previously been jailed for murder and was hence ineligible as a candidate. He ran as a deputy gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 election, and won the election. Bengkulu's governor following the election, Ridwan Mukti, was arrested by the

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in June 2017 due to alleged bribery. Mersyah was sworn in as full governor on 10 December 2018. He was reelected as governor following the 2020 gubernatorial election.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mersyah, Rohidin Living people 1970 births Golkar politicians People from Bengkulu Mayors and regents of places in Bengkulu Governors of Bengkulu Gadjah Mada University alumni