Ma'ruf Amin

At 81 years old, Ma'ruf Amin physical status not available right now. We will update Ma'ruf Amin's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Ma'ruf Amin (born 11 March 1943) is an Indonesian politician, Islamic cleric, and scholar who is Indonesia's 13th and current vice president of Indonesia.

He was the youngest Indonesian vice president to ever be sworn in at 77 years old when he was inaugurated. He is the chairman of the Ulema Council of Indonesia (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, or MUI).

President Joko Widodo declared on August 9 that Ma'ruf would be his running mate in the 2019 Indonesian presidential election.

Following his ascension as Prime Minister (rise 'aam syuriah) of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world's largest Islamic body, he resigned as Supreme Leader (neutral).

Personal life

Siti Churiyah, Ma'ruf's first wife, died on October 22, 2013 at the age of 67. They had nine children and 13 grandchildren when they first married at 49 years old. Wury Estu Handayani, a widow who had been widowed for about two years, married him seven months later on May 31, 2014. They were married in a private ceremony at Menteng's well-known Sunda Kelapa Mosque.

Ma'ruf is a fan of association football. Ma'ruf used to support Manchester United but after a few years of poor results by the club, he switched his allegiance to Liverpool in 2019.

Source

Early life and career

Ma'ruf Amin was born in the Dutch East Indies to Mohamad Amin and Maimunah. In the kecamatan of Kresek, he first went to primary school. He continued his studies at Pesantren Tebuireng in Jombang, East Java, a prominent Islamic boarding school established by NU founder Hasyim Asy'ari. He earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic philosophy from Ibnu Khaldun University in Bogor, West Java, later this year.

Ma'ruf carried out dakwah missions in Jakarta, just shy of graduating from college. At the time, NU was still a vital political party, and Ma'ruf was elected to the Indonesian parliament, the People's Representative Council (or DPR, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat) in the 1971 national election. He was elected to the Jakarta City Council as a member of the United Development Party (Partai Persatuan Pembangan, or PPP) for one term (1977-1982) and served as the head of the PPP caucus six years later (1977–1982). Ma'ruf returned to education and social activism at the end of his term. He was appointed a katib'aam, a senior position in NU's syuriah's supreme executive council, in 1989. He later emerged to be a leader, and he was responsible for Abdurrahman Wahid's executive leadership.

Following Suharto's demise in 1998, Ma'ruf became an advisor to Wahid's National Awakening Party (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa, or PKB) and accompanied Wahid throughout the country's tenure from 1999 to 2001. Ma'ruf has returned to active politics and has served in the national Democratic Party from 1999 to 2004. Ma'ruf was chair of the Fourth Commission (agriculture, food, and maritime affairs) as well as a member of the Second Commission (government affairs and regional autonomy) and the Budgetary Board during his second term in the DPR.

Ma'ruf chaired the Ulema Council's committee in charge of issuing legal opinions while a member of the DPR from 1999 to 2004 (fatwa). He did not apply for re-election to the DPR in 2004 and then returned to the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) to chair the National Sharia Committee (acting from 2004 to 2010). He served as an advisor to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his Presidential Advisory Council from 2007 to 2014.

Ma'ruf ran for the position of rais 'aam syuriah of the NU in 2015, which is equivalent to the chair of the supreme's governing council. After former Pesantren Pesantren Raudlatuth Thalibin's Ahmad Mustofa Bisri, he came in second place in second place. Bisri drew his name from the race, and Ma'ruf was later elected to the position by NU's 33rd Congress, which was a major change.

Ma'ruf was elected to serve as the chair of MUI, replacing Din Syamsuddin, who was en route to NU's top post, only weeks after his ascension to NU's top post.

Source