The Malang City Regional House of Representatives is the

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municipal legislature of the city of

Malang Malang (; , ), historically known as Tumapel, is an inland List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, city in the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of East Java. It has a history dating back to the age of the Singhasari, Singhasari K ...

East Java East Java (, , ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern ...

, Indonesia. It has 45 members, who are elected every five years, simultaneously with the national legislative election.

History

Malang was granted its status as a municipality by the

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...

government in 1914, with the municipal council founded on 6 October 1914. In 1922, the municipal council moved to its current modern location at . During the Dutch period, the council consisted of 11 members, of which 8 were Dutch, 2 were native Indonesians, and the last seat was allocated for non-native groups such as Arabs or Chinese. Under an independent Indonesia, the city council was reestablished in 1950, as a provisional legislature. The first elected council served between 1951 and 1956. In 2018, 40 out of 45 members of the legislature were arrested as suspects for bribery, in a case which also implicated mayor Mochammad Anton and another former legislator Ya'qud Ananda Gudban who had resigned to run in that year's mayoral election. The arrested members were accused of having received payments ranging from Rp 12.5 to 50 million (USD 842 to 3,368) in order to approve the proposed municipal budget in 2015. 40 replacements were sworn in around a week following the arrests in order to maintain the municipal government's functions. All 40 were found guilty of the charges, and received sentences ranging from 4 to 5 years.

Composition

For the 2024–2029 period,

PDI-P The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (, PDI-P) is a centre to centre-left secular-nationalist political party in Indonesia. Since 2014, it has been the ruling and largest party in the House of Representatives (DPR), having won 110 seats ...

is the largest party in the legislature, with 9 seats. Its leadership consists of a speaker and three deputy speakers. Members are assigned into one of four commissions – Commission A on government, Commission B on Economics and Finance, Commission C on Development, and Commission D on Public Welfare.

Election

In the 2019 election, the city was divided into five multi-member

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from which the legislators were elected. The electoral districts are coterminous with the 5 city districts.

References

{{reflist Malang Politics of East Java City Regional Houses of Representatives in Indonesia Government agencies established in 1914