page_title: Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
section_title: Political Careers
hierarchical_section_title: Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono / Political Careers
caption_attribution_description: Bahasa Indonesia: AHY Kogasma
context_page_description: H. Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, MSc, M.P.A., M.A. or more familiarly called AHY is the Executive Director of The Yudhoyono Institute and founder of the AHY Foundation. Previously, he worked as military officer in the TNI for 16 years. AHY became the best graduate of the Military Academy in 2000 and won the Indonesian President award; Adi Makayasa.
  While serving in the Indonesian Army, AHY assumed the task of restoring security operations in Aceh in 2002 and UN peace operations in Lebanon in 2006. AHY has also actively contributed to the transformation and modernization within the TNI. He also co-founded the Indonesian Defense University. In 2015, AHY led one of the Capital's security units, as Commander of 203 / Arya Kamuning Mechanical Infantry Battalion, under Brigif 1 / PIK, Kodam Jaya.
  In 2016, AHY was appointed by the Democratic Party, the National Awakening Party, the United Development Party, and the National Mandate Party to become Jakarta Governor Candidates. Since then, he has been active in politics under Democratic Party and was given the task of Commanding the Joint Task Command to win Indonesia's 2019 General Election, with the target of 5–10 percent.
context_section_description: AHY began his political career as a candidate for DKI Jakarta Governor in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election. With the support of a coalition formed by 4 political parties: the Democratic Party, the National Awakening Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP), and the National Mandate Party (PAN). In his very first election, he was paired with an experienced local bureaucrat, Syliviana Murni.
  The Agus-Sylvi challenged the incumbent Basuki Tjahja Purnama-Djarot Saiful Hidayat (Ahok-Djarot) and Anies Baswedan-Sandiaga Uno (Anies-Sandi). Agus-Sylvi gets sequence number 1, Ahok-Djarot gets sequence number 2, and Anies-Sandi gets sequence number 3.
  On 17 February 2018, Democratic Party Chairperson Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) confirmed AHY as Commander of the Joint Task Force (Kogasma) for the 2018 Head of Region Election (Pemilukada) and 2019 General Election.
  He became a Democratic Party tireless campaigner and consolidated cadres in the region to win candidates nominated by the Democratic Party in the 2018 General Election. The Democratic Party succeeded in achieving the initial target of 35 percent from 171 elections.
  In the 2019 elections, the Presidential Elections (Pilpres) and Legislative Elections (Pileg) were held simultaneously. At the 2019 Presidential Election, the Democratic Party formed a coalition with the political party supporting Prabowo-Sandi. Whereas in the 2019 Pileg, the Democratic Party is targeting 15 percent of the total number of seats in the Indonesian Parliament.
  AHY as Commander of Kogasma led the efforts to win the Democratic Party. In the 2019 legislative election, the Democratic Party in various surveys is predicted to only be able to win less than 5 percent of the vote. However, under the leadership of AHY as Commander of the Kogasma Legislative Election of the 2019 Legislative Elections, the Democratic Party was able to win 10,876,507 votes (7.77 percent), exceeding the predictions of various surveys.
  For his achievements, in October 2019 AHY was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party. AHY is expected to be able to bring the Democratic Party towards better and progressive change.
caption: KOGASMA
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