Who Is Yasonna Laoly

JAKARTA - Prof. Yasonna Hamongan Laoly, SH, M.Sc., Ph.D. is the Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menkumham) who was elected the second time in the cabinet of President Jokowi. As a native of Nias ethnicity for the first time being elected as a minister, Yasonna was assigned by Jokowi to oversee the omnibus law process.

As the 10th minister mentioned by President Jokowi at the State Palace yesterday, Yasonna was given the mandate to focus on guarding the omnibus law.

"I hope that later on guarding the omnibus law: the Job Creation Bill, the UMKM Empowerment Bill,"

Jokowi

Yasonna Laoly's background, who is an Ono Niha, a native of Nias ethnicity, is an organizational activist, academician, intellectual, lecturer and university dean to legislative members of the PDI-P party.

The name Yasonna Hamongan Laoly is the first of six children born in Tapanuli, North Sumatra, on May 27, 1953. His father has the surname F. Laoly and his mother is named R. Sihite. He first started his career as a lecturer and also the campus dean. Yasonna has always loved law and organization. The husband of Elisye Widya Ketaren entered politics through the PDIP party and became the first Nias son to hold a ministerial position. The couple Yasonna and Elisye have now been blessed with four children.

Yasonna Laoly's father was a policeman whose last rank was Major in fact a member of the Sibolga City DPRD and a member of the Central Tapanuli DPRD from the ABRI faction.

Yasonna Laoly studied undergraduate education at the University of North Sumatra (USU) majoring in law. Received a law degree in 1978. Not satisfied with his S-1 degree, Yasonna then continued his Masters studies in America to earn a Master of Science from Virginia Commonwealth University, United States. Yasonna's S-3 degree is a criminology studies graduate from North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States.

In the fourth year of college he was already a lawyer, his first case was divorce. Yasonna also served as a legal advisor to the HKBP Nommensen University Medan, North Sumatra in the period 1980-1983.

Together with Mukhtar Pakpahan from the Nommensen Legal Aid Institute, they both once defended a retired Polri officer whose house was evicted. It is quite ironic, considering that Yasonna's family also comes from the same world as the Police family.

Upon his return, Yasonna completed his doctoral degree from the United States, he was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Law. Along with the events of the Reformation Movement, he also entered politics at the suggestion of his friends. The choice from the start was firmly established in the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) led by Megawati Soekarnoputri.

From 1999 to 2004 he succeeded in representing members of the DPRD in the province of North Sumatra. Trying to move up his fortune caste as a Candidate for Members of the DPR RI for the electoral district of North Sumatra I (Medan, Deli Serdang, Serdang Bedagai, Tebing Tinggi), he got serial number 2. Luck sided with Yasonna, he managed to move his way to Senayan.

Before being elected as a minister, Yasonna Laoly was a legislator who sat on Commission II of the Indonesian Parliament for the 2004-2009 period from the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) faction. In the 2009 elections he again ran for legislative candidacy, this time through the Electoral District of North Sumatra II (Nias, Tapanuli, Asahan, and Labuhan Batu). Yasonna was re-elected and trusted as Chair of the PDIP MPR RI faction and Deputy Chair of the DPR RI Budget Agency.

Yasonna's victory at the legislative level occurred again, he was elected as a member of the Indonesian Parliament for the 2019-2024 period.

His name was first elected in 2014 as Menkumham in the Indonesian Work Cabinet. In July 2015, he launched a movement within his own ministry in the form of the credo "Let's Work, We Must". It is an encouragement for employees at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights to work harder. While "We Definitely" stands for We Are Professional, Accountable, Synergistic, Transparent, Innovative.

Then it continued how the controversy over dualism in the management of political parties that ended in chaos, namely the Golkar Party and the PPP. Yasonna's role was considered too partial, even meddling in party internal affairs. But he didn't flinch.

After resigning in October as a member of the Indonesian Parliament for the 2019-2024 period because it turned out that he was elected, he was immediately re-appointed as Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menkumham) by President Joko Widodo at the State Palace on Wednesday (23/10).

Now Yasonna Laoly serves as Minister of Law and Human Rights in the Forward Indonesia Cabinet 2019-2024.

On the pretext of humanity in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, his decision to release thirty thousand prisoners became a public controversy. He was even sued by three Surakarta NGOs, which considered his decision to be very disturbing to the community.

Yasonna also flicked on those who live in the Tanjung Priok area as an area full of criminality. So that there was a peaceful demonstration in front of the office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) on Wednesday (22/1/2020) morning. His statement, which led to the vocabulary of 'criminal in Priok', drew protests from various circles of Tanjung Priok residents.

Asked about the news that tends to corner him, Yasonna answered that this is a common thing in politics. Especially the role of the media, which he pointed out to be the media in which political opponents stand as owners or shareholders.

The arrest of Maria Pauline, who broke into BNI Bank worth 1.7 trillion recently, Yasonna responded with suspicion, that there are several parties who do not want Maria Pauline not to be extradited back to Indonesia.

The first Nias son. Yasonna recorded history as the first native Nias-born son who ever served as a minister.

Wealth. Yasonna is noted to have 16 plots of land and buildings spread across Tangerang, Medan and Deli Serdang.

Had wanted to be a pastor. After high school, Yasonna's dream was to be a pastor, because of her older cousin's disapproval and Yasonna's sudden desire after visiting the University of North Sumatra campus, she abandoned her dream of becoming a pastor.

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Full name: Yasonna Homanangan Laoly

Place and Date of BirthSorkam, Central Tapanuli, 27 May 1953

Protestant Christianity

Profession: Lecturer, Academician, Politician

Couple Elisye Widya

Property Rp. 23,355,955,382. (LHKPN / 2019)

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International Education in Higher Education Administration Roanoke College, Virginia, United States, 1983-1984 Doctor of North Carolina University, 1994 Master Virginia Commonwealth University, 1986 Bachelor of Law Faculty, University of North Sumatra, 1978 Sibolga Catholic Senior High School, 1968-1972 Sibolga School, 1965-1968 Sibolga Folk School, 1959- 1965 \

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Career Journey Minister of Law and Human Rights, Forward Indonesian Cabinet 2019-2024 Minister of Law and Human Rights, Working Indonesian Cabinet 2014-2019 Member of the DPR from PDIP, 2004-2009 PDIP Board of North Sumatra, 2000-2008 Member of DPRD North Sumatra from PDIP, 1999-2004 Dean of the Faculty of Law Nommensen University, Medan , 1998-1999 Chairman of the Department of Civil Law, University of Nommensen, Medan, 1994-1998 Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law, Nomensen University, 1980-1983 Lawyer & Legal Advisor, 1978-1983