Profile Marullah Matali: Saudi Arabia Graduates Proposed To Be Replaced By Anies Baswedan

DKI Jakarta Regional Secretary Marullah Matali (DOK ANTARA/Yogi Rachman)

YOGYAKARTA Marullah Matali's profile is in the spotlight after his name is proposed to be the replacement for Anies Baswedan, who will take office on October 16. His name was proposed through the Plenary Meeting of the DKI Jakarta DPRD which was held on Tuesday, September 13, 2022.

Marullah Matali is not alone. There are two other names that were also proposed to the Ministry of Home Affairs, namely Heru Budi Hartono and the Director General of Politics and General Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs Bahtiar. Then, who exactly is Marullah Matali?

Just like the President Heru Budi Hartono, Marullah Matali is also not a new person within the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. He himself was born in Jakarta on November 27, 1965. He attended elementary school (SD) to high school (SMA) level in Jakarta.

Meanwhile, the Bachelor's degree in Strata-1 was held at the University of Basra, Saudi Arabia, taking part in Islam. He then continued his Bachelor's degree in Strata-2 at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, taking part in Islamic law.

The Betawi son who was born on November 27, 1965, has had a career in the DKI Provincial Government since 1996. At that time he served as a staff member of the Mental Mental Development Bureau of DKI Jakarta Province.

Although slowly, his career rose to the position of Head of the Mental Mental Development Sub-Service Office of the Bintal and Social Affairs Office of DKI Jakarta Province.

During his career, Marullah also held an important position, one of which was being the mayor of South Jakarta from 2018 to 2021 which was directly appointed by Anies Baswedan.

In the early period of serving as Walkot South Jakarta, Marullah was under the spotlight for successfully holding the Jakarta Maghrib Mengaji program. Based on several sources, Marulli held the program to revive a positive religious culture through mental and spiritual development.

Marullah Matali also held the position of Regional Secretary (Sekda) of DKI Jakarta. At that time he replaced Saefullah who died due to COVID-19 on September 16, 2019.

At that time Marullah competed with dozens of state civil servants (ASN) to occupy the position of DKI Jakarta Regional Secretary. Selection was carried out with a number of tests such as written tests and paper writing, competency assessments, interview tests, and interviews. In the test, Marullah always got the highest score.

The good test results made Marullah pass the test as DKI Jakarta Regional Secretary. He was then inaugurated by Governor Anies Baswedan on January 18, 2021.

During his career as a Civil Servant (PNS), Marullah managed to win two awards, namely the 15-year tenure award given by the Governor of DKI Jakarta in 2011, and received the Satyalancana Karya Satya KL.1 award from the President of the Republic of Indonesia in 2012.

As is known, the Ministry of Home Affairs requested that parliament propose the name of the candidate for the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta until September 16. Responding to this request, the DPRD succeeded in capturing three potential names to replace Anies Baswedan.

The name network was obtained from the results of a joint leadership meeting (rapimgab) of nine factions of the DKI DPRD. In the meeting each faction was asked to submit three names that were proposed, so there were 27 votes in total.

From the proposed name, initially there were four names that were netted, namely the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono, Regional Secretary of DKI Jakarta Province Marullah Matali, Director General of Polpum Kemendagri Bahtiar, and Deputy IV Presidential Chief of Staff for Information and Political Communication Juri Ardiantoro.

Based on the results of the meeting chaired by the Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi, each name received a different vote. Heru received 9 votes, Marullah 9 votes, Bahtiar 6 votes, and the jury received 3 votes which were later declared invalid to be proposed to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

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