Sylviana Murni (born 11 October 1958) is an Indonesian politician and bureaucrat who has been a member of the

Regional Representative Council The Regional Representative Council ( id, Dewan Perwakilan Daerah, DPD; alternatively translatable as the House of Regions or the House of Regional Representatives or the Senate of Indonesia), is one of two parliamentary chambers in Indonesia ...

since 2019. She has previously served as mayor of

Central Jakarta Central Jakarta ( id, Jakarta Pusat) is one of the five administrative cities () which form the Special Capital Region of Jakarta. It had 902,973 inhabitants according to the 2010 censusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 1,056,896 at the 2 ...

between 2008 and 2010 and later participated as a running mate in the

2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election Two rounds of a gubernatorial election were held in Jakarta as part of the 2017 Indonesian local elections, 2017 simultaneous elections on 15 February and 19 April 2017 to elect the governor of Jakarta to a five-year term. Incumbent governor Basu ...

Early life

Sylviana was born in

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

on 11 October 1958. She studied law at

Jayabaya University Jayabaya University is a private university in Jakarta, precisely on Jalan Pulomas Selatan Kav 23, East Jakarta. Founded on October 5, 1958 by Prof. Dr. Moeslim Taher when he was 24 years old. Currently the Rector of Jayabaya University is held ...

, and later economics at the University of Indonesia (masters) and Jakarta State University (doctorate). In 1981, during her final semester at Jayabaya, she participated in the Mr. & Miss Jakarta (''Abang None Jakarta'') contest as her friend had signed her up, and she won first place.

Career

She began working for Jakarta's provincial government in 1985. She was promoted multiple times, and by 1997 she was head of the culture and mental coaching in Jakarta's educational department. Shortly before the fall of Suharto, Sylviana also served in the

Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council The Special Capital Region of Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council ( id, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah Provinsi Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, abbreviated DPRD DKI Jakarta or simply DPRD DKI) is the unicameral legislature of the Indon ...

between 1997 and 1999. After the stint as a legislator, she returned to her bureaucratic work, being appointed head of the social development department until 2001, head of the population and civil registration office until 2004, and head of elementary education until 2008. On 1 April 2008, she was appointed as the mayor of

. She became the first woman to serve as mayor of Jakarta's five administrative cities. Saefullah was appointed to replace her on 4 November 2010. She was later proposed as a potential candidate for regional secretary (the highest bureaucratic office in Jakarta) in 2014, but was passed over in favor of Saefullah, and Sylviana was instead appointed governor's deputy for tourism and culture. In order to run as Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono's running mate in the

, she resigned from her civil servant job in September 2016. The pair was defeated in the first round of the election, and Sylviana instead ran as a Jakarta senatorial candidate for the 2019 legislative election. She was elected into the

with 455,182 votes, ranking fourth in Jakarta out of an allotment of four senators.

References

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