Irwandi Yusuf

Quick Facts

Full Name	Irwandi Yusuf
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 2, 1960(1960-08-02)
Age	64
Birthplace	Bireuen
Country	Indonesia
Birth City	Bireuen
Horoscope	Leo

Irwandi Yusuf Biography

Irwandi Yusuf is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 2, 1960 in Bireuen, Bireuen, Indonesia. drh. H. Irwandi Yusuf, M.Sc. (born in Bireuën, Aceh, Indonesia; 2 August 1960), is an Indonesian politician who served as Governor of Aceh province in north Sumatra. He was re-elected Governor in early 2017 after serving an earlier term between 2006 and 2012.

Irwandi first won a term as governor in the 2006 Aceh regional election as an independent candidate (non-party). Muhammad Nazar, S. Ag. was his running mate in 2006. However Irwandi lost his 2012 re-election campaign to Zaini Abdullah following a strong challenge and intensive campaigning by other local political rivals. Allegations that he may have wrongfully granted land concessions involving previously protected high conservation value land to palm oil companies also surfaced before the campaign. In 2017, he was reelected as the Governor of Aceh, with Nova Iriansyah as his partner.

He took office in 8 February 2007 and established a normal relationship with the army that once pursued him as a Free Aceh Movement rebel. In an unusual move for a former revolutionary, he kept much of the old administration in place although he also moved to reform a range of positions in the senior ranks of the provincial public service. In a 2007 New York Times interview, Irwandi said, “I tell them, ‘I believe, I trust you all. You are all trustworthy until you prove otherwise. Then I will know.'” In the same interview, he remarked that his former enemies in the cabinet were welcome to ‘rock and roll’ with him – “Rock and roll… That means to do something new, rocky, that was never felt before. It is spirit. Spirited people. Young blood. Young spirit.” His first term expired on 8 February 2012, and later he lost his reelection run against Zaini Abdullah.

However, in 2011, Irwandi’s apparent pro-environmental efforts were abruptly halted and reversed. He allegedly surprised supporters when information was uncovered that, on 25 August 2011, he had quietly granted a concession to palm oil supplier PT Kallista Alam which authorised the destruction of a peat swamp forest that is one of the last refuges of the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan. Some of the indigenous peoples took the about-face from the so- called ‘Green Governor’ personally, calling it a betrayal of their homeland and of his previous environmental credentials. On a legal level, though, many environmental organisations argued that Irwandi’s decision breached a presidential moratorium – part of an international deal to save Indonesia’s forests – as well as legislation protecting a conservation area where the Tripa swamp is located. Litigation was filed by environmental groups known as WAHLI, challenging the legality of this concession and contending it was granted in an area of protected forest and further violated a moratorium on peatlands conversion.

Irwandi was in his jail cell when the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake struck. The epicenter of the quake was close to the Acehnese coastline. The population of Aceh before the December 2004 tsunami was 4,271,000, and as of 15 September 2005 was 4,031,589; a discrepancy of 239,411 lives. 170,000 people were confirmed dead.

Irwandi Yusuf Net Worth

Irwandi Yusuf is one of the richest Politician from Indonesia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Irwandi Yusuf 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Irwandi Yusuf, a veterinarian (Alumnus of Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh), joined the Free Aceh Movement in 1990, participating for three years before taking up a scholarship at Oregon State University, US, in 1993, where he undertook a master’s degree in Veterinary Science.

In the past, his concern for Acehnese socio-political issues led him into further contact with the Free Aceh Movement. He held several different positions in the movement, including as a special staff office for psychological warfare in the Central Free Aceh Movement command, as negotiation coordinator, and as Expert Staff on counter-intelligence in the Central Command of the Aceh National Army. He spent some time in 2001 with the Red Cross, taking the opportunity to study humanitarian law. Irwandi was arrested in 2003 and interned in the Keudah Prison in Banda Aceh.

Irwandi declared a moratorium on all logging in Aceh in March 2007, and personally drove out to villages to conduct spot inspections of former logging camps, encouraging the locals to take up sustainable new professions.

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Who is Irwandi Yusuf Dating?

According to our records, Irwandi Yusuf married to Darwati A. Gani. As of December 1, 2023, Irwandi Yusuf’s is not dating anyone.

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Irwandi had spoken out amid the considerable attention that emerged in the wake of the Tripa peat swamp fires and the WALHI litigation. In reports on 5 April 2012, Irwandi claimed that the land grant, while legal, was ‘immoral’ yet intended by him to bring world attention to global inability to tackle global climate change, in effect destroying the Tripa forests to save them. Irwandi was quoted as saying, “That concession, 1,600 hectares, was like a pinch to the international community. Maybe I will make a threat to lift the moratorium [entirely] to make them look at Aceh.” He also denied that any orangutans had died in the fires despite evidence to the contrary.

Facts & Trivia

Irwandi Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Indonesia. Irwandi Yusuf celebrates birthday on August 2 of every year.

On 27 March 2012, on the eve of the WAHLI case being heard in court, over seventy illegally set fires mysteriously broke out in this protected Tripa swamp area, including fires set in the oil palm concession granted by Irwandi to PT. Kallista Alam. Many involved with the WAHLI litigation believed the fires were set in direct defiance of the pending litigation, in effect ignoring any eventual ruling on the alleged legality of Irwandi’s granted concession. Mainstream media outlets and environmental organisations report that these fires could lead to the imminent and immediate extinction of the animal inhabitants of the Tripa swamp, including over 200 orangutans.