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Place of Birth: Bandung, Indonesia
About Setya Novanto
- Setya Novanto (born 12 November 1955) is a former Indonesian politician, who served as chairman of Golkar Party and speaker of the People's Representative Council (Indonesian: Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, DPR) until he was arrested and implicated for corruption in 2017.
- Born in Bandung, he entered politics in 1998 after a career in business and became a member of the People's Representative Council following the 1999 general election.
- After he was re-elected for a third time in the 2014 general election, in which the victorious Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle won a plurality in parliament, he was appointed Speaker by the majority opposition coalition. His term in office was plagued by corruption scandals.
- He resigned from the post in late 2015 amid an ethics investigation, but the following year, he was appointed chairman of Golkar, switched the party's allegiance to the governing coalition, and was reappointed speaker of the DPR (Parliament) in November 2016.
- Despite being plagued by multiple allegations of corruption, he would not face trial until being implicated in the e-KTP scandal, where it was alleged he embezzled funds from a national electronic ID card program.
- Following his arrest by the Corruption Eradication Commission in November 2017, which attracted national media attention, he resigned as DPR speaker for a second time and was later removed from his post Golkar chairman.
- He was tried for corruption in December 2017, and sentenced to 15 years in jail in April 2018.
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