With President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo securing his second and final presidential term, all eyes are on young and potential candidates for the next presidential and vice presidential election in 2024.

Though possibilities for other candidates to run are wide open, including unpopular names, here are some potential names — either as presidential or vice presidential candidates — that have emerged to the surface.

Sandiaga Uno

The 50-year-old businessman-turned-politician quickly made a name for himself on the political landscape shortly after he became the running mate of Anies Baswedan in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election.

Less than a year after becoming deputy Jakarta governor, Sandiaga resigned and became the running mate of Prabowo Subianto to challenge Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin in the April 17 presidential election.

Although his bid was unsuccessful, he earned a head start for the upcoming election after garnering more than 44 percent of the vote along with Prabowo.

In 2016, Sandiaga was listed in the Panama Papers, a series of leaked documents containing information about individuals with wealth parked in offshore company structures. He did not deny the substance of the documents but claimed that he had always been a compliant taxpayer.

Anies Baswedan

Being the top man in the Indonesian capital as Jakarta governor has given Anies, 50, the exposure he needs on his quest to advance his political career. Although, he has yet to express his intention to run in the next presidential election, political analysts believe Anies has his eyes set on the country’s top seat.

The former education minister along with his running mate Sandiaga Uno won the Jakarta election in 2017 to dethrone Basuki “BTP” Tjahaja Purnama in the highly divisive poll, which was plagued by religious and racial sentiments. BTP, who was also known as Ahok, a Christian of Chinese descent, was found guilty of blasphemy for a comment he made regarding with a verse in the Quran during a working visit to Thousand Islands regency.

Ridwan Kamil

Leading Indonesia’s most populous province of West Java is believed to be an electoral advantage for Ridwan Kamil, 47, a former mayor of Bandung who is also popular on social media and among youth communities in the West Java capital.

Bringing betterment for the province known as a religiously conservative area will be a test for the former architect to pave his way for the country’s top spot.

Backed by the United Development Party (PPP), the National Awakening Party (PKB), the NasDem Party and Hanura Party, Ridwan and his running mate Uu Ruzhaul Ulum won the gubernatorial election in 2018 after securing nearly 33 percent of the vote.

Ganjar Pranowo

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician is known for bringing bureaucratic reform during his leadership as Central Java governor. He won a second term after securing 58.7 percent of the vote in 2018.

Ganjar, 50, was implicated in a corruption case revolving around the procurement of e-ID cards during his time as a lawmaker at the House of Representative. Ganjar, however, strongly denied the accusation.

Tri Rismaharini

Tri Rismaharini, 57, a PDI-P politician affectionately known as Risma, is completing her second term as the mayor of Surabaya, the second-largest city in the country. She is the first female mayor of the city and is well-known for her revolutionary move to beautify the city.

As a public servant figure, Risma has won praise as well as criticism for her performance and service to Surabaya and its people. In October last year, she was awarded by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) for her “people-centered and all inclusive” policies in the East Java city. In 2015, the mayor was named one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders by American business magazine Fortune.

Also in 2015, she won the prestigious Bung Hatta anticorruption award at home. Earlier in February 2014, she was named world mayor of the month by the London-based City Mayors Foundation, an international think tank dedicated to urban affairs.

Her move to close the largest and oldest brothel in the city has won praise but also drawn criticism, citing that the move has forced many sex workers to work in unregulated and more dangerous conditions.

Hasto Wardoyo

Hasto Wardoyo, 55, is perhaps the least popular PDI-P member. However, his recent appointment by president Jokowi as the head of the National Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN), leaving his previous position as the regent of Kulon Progo in Yogyakarta, which he had held twice since being directly elected in 2011, is considered by many as a political boost for his political career.

Prior to his rise to prominence as a politician, he was known as a general practitioner and entrepreneur in the medical field.

In 2012, he earned praise for introducing an innovation to improve the economy in Kulon Progo by requiring students and civil servants there to buy products and services offered by the domestic market.

Bima Arya Sugiarto

Bima Arya, 46, has been the mayor of Bogor in West Java since 2014 and recently won the election to reassume office for the second time. Prior to being a politician, Arya was also a political lecturer and analyst.

Under his leadership, the city was named among the most intolerant cities by Setara rights group in 2015 for its failure to protect the religious freedom of minority groups. However, after showing improvement, the city was removed from the list in 2018.

Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

Known as AHY, 40, the eldest son of former president and Democratic Party patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, made a surprising move in 2016 when he resigned from military after 16 years of service while holding the rank of major to run in the Jakarta gubernatorial election.

While he was unsuccessful on his quest and finished third in the race, many analysts believe that he had obtained electoral exposure and could earn a brighter political career given his age.

Apart from the names on the list, many observers believe the race is wide open for other young potential candidates, such as Khofifah Indar Parawansa, the governor of East Java, Puan Maharani, the coordinating human development and culture minister and daughter of PDI-P chairwoman and former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, and Muhaimin Iskandar, the chairman of the PKB.

Other popular names, including former Indonesian Military commander Gen. (ret) Gatot Nurmantyo and Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto, who has contested the presidential election twice, still have the potential to be candidates.

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