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Four Jakarta senators-elect are no strangers to voters
The four senators representing Jakarta are familiar faces with most of them having been involved in politics for decades.
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A woman scrutinizes a list of Regional Representatives Council (DPD) candidates at the General Elections Commission (KPU) in 2018. The KPU announced at the time that 807 people would run for seats in the DPD during the 2019 general election. The KPU also declared that 7,968 candidates would compete for seats in the House of Representatives. (The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
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ll four candidates who gained the available seats for the Jakarta electoral district out of the 136 in the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) have familiar faces in politics, while two of them are incumbents.
Senators Fahira Idris and Sabam Sirait retained their seats, attracting 581,108 votes and 626,618 votes, respectively.
In the 2014 elections, Fahira, 51, secured her seat with 511,323 votes and in the council she was the head of DPD Committee III overseeing education, religion and health.
Prior to being a senator, Fahira was a businesswoman and a politician. In Jakarta's 2017 gubernatorial election she supported the ticket of Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno.
After the gubernatorial election, Fahira founded the Bang Japar Legal Aid Foundation, alleging there had been fraud and intimidation at polling stations.
Her father Fahmi Idris was Indonesian labor minister during the BJ Habibie administration and her mother, Kartini, was the daughter of KH Hasan Basri, a former Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) chairman.
Sabam, 82, is the oldest of the four senators-elect from Jakarta.
