Profile Of Max Sopacua, From A Sports Broadcaster And Then A Member Of The DPR For 2 Periods

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JAKARTA - Senior Democratic Party politician Max Sopacua passed away this morning, Wednesday, November 17. Max died after being treated for 17 days at the Gatot Subroto Army Hospital, Central Jakarta due to illness.

Max's condition began to become unstable and worsened after undergoing heart surgery. This was conveyed by his party colleague Darmizal. Max, who was born in Ambon on March 2, 1946, has a wife and three children. Max grew up as a teenager in Ambon.

Where Max studied from elementary to high school in Ambon. Max then moved to Jakarta to continue his education. Max studied at STIE Gotong Royong Jakarta from S1 to S2.

In the 1980s to 1990s, Max was known as a sports news anchor at TVRI. Max was even trusted to be the producer of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 1998 FIFA World Cup, 1999 SEA Games, and 2000 Sydney Olympics.

His work as a sports news broadcaster made him active in the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) organization. Max was a member of it from 1990 to 2001. In addition, he is also a member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU).

2020, Max started his political career after deciding to leave TVRI. At that time, Max joined the Democratic Party and served as Deputy Secretary-General until 2005.

In the 2004 and 2009 elections, Max was elected to the House of Representatives (DPR) for two terms in 2004–2009 and 2009–2014 from the Democratic Party.

Max entered the DPR representing the electoral districts (Dapil) West Java IV (2004–2009) and West Java V (2009–2014) and served on Commissions IX and I of the DPR. However, in the 2014 election, Max failed to enter Parliament.

Max has held the position of Deputy Chairperson of the Democratic Party and Member of the Democratic Party's Upper House. However, Max decided to leave the party with the mercy logo. After not being in Democrats, Max had time to join the Prosperous Community Era (Gold) Party. However, then Max left and joined the Democrats of Moeldoko's camp.

Together with the Moeldoko camp, Max initiated the Extraordinary Congress (KLB) in Deli Serdang. In the KLB, Moeldoko was chosen as the General Chair of the Democrats.

The Ministry of Law and Human Rights also refused to authorize the management of the Democratic Party for Moeldoko's camp.