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Place of Birth: East Java, Indonesia
About Mahfud MD
- Mohammad Mahfud MD (born Mohammad Mahfud; 13 May 1957), commonly known as Mahfud MD, is an Indonesian politician and lawyer and is the currently-appointed Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of Indonesia.
- He is of Madurese descent, born in Sampang, a regency on Madura Island.
- He was the chief justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia, member of the People's Representative Council (DPR) of National Awakening Party and also was the Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice and Human Rights under the Wahid Presidency.
- He completed his five-year term as chief justice back in April 2013 and has announced that he would not seek reelection as chief justice.
- The end of Mahfud's time as chief justice was subsequently followed by intention to run for the presidential seat in 2014, which was eventually won by former Governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo. Mahfud holds a master's degree in political science and a doctorate in constitutional law (1993) from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta.
- Since 1984, he has also been a professor of constitutional law at the faculty of law at the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) in Yogyakarta.
- He has also taught in a number of other universities in Indonesia.
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