Indonesia’s upper house, lower house have new presidents
Senator La Nyalla Mattalitti was elected President of the Regional Representative Council (DPD), Indonesia’s upper house, for the 2019-2024 tenure on October 1 evening, local media reported.
La Nyalla Mattalitti, newly elected President of the Regional Representative Council (DPD), Indonesia’s upper house, speaks to the press. (Photo: wartaekonomi)
Jakarta (VNA) – SenatorLa Nyalla Mattalitti was elected President of the Regional RepresentativeCouncil (DPD), Indonesia’s upper house, for the 2019-2024 tenure on October 1 evening, local media reported.
The 3-hour vote took placeduring the upper house’s third plenary session which was attended by 134 out of136 senators.
Former President of theAll Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) La Nyalla Mattalittiwas elected after drawing 47 votes. He defeated Senator Sultan Bachtiar who won40 votes, Senator Mahyudin who got 28 votes and Senator Nono Sampono who got 18votes. The three senators will be the DPD’s vice presidents.
Earlier, Indonesia’s newparliament elected the country’s first female speaker of the People’s RepresentativeCouncil, the lower house. Puan Maharani, member of the ruling IndonesianDemocratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), was voted to lead thelower house for the 2019-2024 period.
She is the first female speaker of the Indonesian lower house after over 70years.
Puan, born in 1973, is the daughter of former PresidentMegawati Soekarnoputri, who now chairs the PDI-P, and thegranddaughter of Indonesia’s founding father and first President Soekarno.
She served as coordinating human development and culture minister underPresident Joko Widodo from 2014 to 2019.
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La Nyalla Mattalitti, newly elected President of the Regional Representative Council (DPD), Indonesia’s upper house, speaks to the press. (Photo: wartaekonomi) 
