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Place of Birth: Bireuen, Sumatra, Indonesia
About Irwandi Yusuf
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- Irwandi Yusuf, M.Sc.
- (born in Bireuën, Aceh, Indonesia; 2 August 1960), is an Indonesian politician who served as Governor of Aceh province in north Sumatra.
- He was re-elected Governor in early 2017 after serving an earlier term between 2006 and 2012. Irwandi first won a term as governor in the 2006 Aceh regional election as an independent candidate (non-party).
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- was his running mate in 2006.
- However Irwandi lost his 2012 re-election campaign to Zaini Abdullah following a strong challenge and intensive campaigning by other local political rivals.
- Allegations that he may have wrongfully granted land concessions involving previously protected high conservation value land to palm oil companies also surfaced before the campaign.
- In 2017, he was reelected as the Governor of Aceh, with Nova Iriansyah as his partner.In 2018, the former Free Aceh Movement (Indonesian: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) leader was the second Aceh governor implicated in a corruption case after Abdullah Puteh, who was sentenced to 10 years for graft surrounding the procurement of an MI-2 Rostov helicopter worth US$872,500.Irwandi was arrested along with Bener Meriah Regent Ahmadi and eight other individuals on corruption charges.
- On April 8th, 2019, Yusuf was sentenced to seven years in prison for accepting bribes from Ahmadi totaling Rp 1.05 billion (US$74,084) in exchange for granting number of infrastructure projects in the regency.
- He was also found to have accepted Rp 8.7 billion in gratuities from businessmen during his two terms as governor.
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