Puan Maharani

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After the fall of Suharto in 1998, Puan became involved in politics as her mother was one of the main players in the national political scene. During the three-year Megawati presidency, she would often accompany her mother on domestic and foreign official visits, in addition to conducting social events by herself.

In 2008, Megawati introduced Puan, then head of PDI-P's public and women's empowerment wing, as her successor during campaigning for the East Java 2008 gubernatorial elections in Ngawi. Following that, Maharani ran in the 2009 elections in Central Java's election district 5 (covering Surakarta, Sukoharjo, Klaten and Boyolali) and won 242,504 votes - the second highest of all parliamentary candidates in the nation. During her first term, she acted as head of the PDI-P faction since 2012, replacing Tjahjo Kumolo (who later became Minister of Home Affairs). She was assigned to the DPR's 6th commission, covering investment and SMEs. During this period, she argued against a fuel price hike policy in 2013.

Later, she was briefly put up as a possible PDI-P presidential candidate for the 2014 elections and as a possible vice presidential candidate to Joko Widodo (popularly known as Jokowi). In the legislative elections, she won 326,927 votes, once more scoring the second-most votes nationwide.

Following Jokowi's election victory over Prabowo Subianto in the concurrent presidential election, she was appointed a cabinet minister amid criticism over her inexperience and her mother's political influence. Her replacement in parliament, Alfia Reziani, was only sworn in by 2016. She claimed success during her tenure, pointing at the rising HDI in addition to lower poverty and Gini ratio statistics. She was the only coordinating minister to survive two cabinet reshuffles in Jokowi's first term, prompting the media to describe her as "untouchable".

On 24 August 2016, in her capacity as Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture, Puan launched a website, revolusimental.go.id, to promote President Joko Widodo's call for a "mental revolution" in Indonesia. The ministry had received budget funds of Rp149 billion in 2015, resulting in criticism when the revolusimental website went "down" two days after its launch. Officials claimed the site had been hacked and had cost "only" Rp200 million. Reports noted that some of the site's script code had been taken from barackobama.com, a site operated by supporters of Barack Obama. The original site was also built on a theme from open-source website platform WordPress and hosted on a shared server. The website was later redeveloped, but was criticized for being "heavy on budget, light on content". Puan defended the website, saying: “l really want everyone to participate in this programme by joining the activities as well as giving us their opinions or criticisms.”

On 22 March 2018, former House of Representatives speaker Setya Novanto, while on trial for corruption, testified Puan received a bribe of $500,000 from businessman Made Oka Masagung in connection with an electronic identity card program when she was a legislator, serving as chairwoman of the PDIP faction in the House of Representatives. Puan admitted to knowing Made Oka but denied discussing the e-ID case with him. Made Oka, who was jailed for 10 years for his role in the e-ID bribery scandal, denied giving any money to legislators, saying he could not remember a meeting with them. Indonesia Corruption Watch called on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to check the veracity of the allegation made against Puan. KPK chairman Agus Rahardjo said Setya's testimony was "only talk" and Puan would not be questioned if no evidence had been found.

Following Indonesia's April 2019 general election, in which provisional results indicated PDIP had received the most votes, Puan was touted to become Speaker of the House for the 2019-2024 period, becoming the first female Speaker of the body. She has also indicated she may run for the presidency in 2024. Individually, she obtained 404,034 votes for her ticket for the council, the most of any legislative candidates in the country. She was appointed as Speaker on 1 October 2019, becoming the first woman to hold the position.

During the ratification of Omnibus Law on Job Creation, Puan forcefully turned off the microphone of Benny Kabur Harman, a legislator from the Demokrat party, when Harman is speaking. Puan claimed that it is her authority to do so, and she is told to do so by Azis Syamsuddin. Puan claimed that Syamsuddin has deemed Harman has spoken too much and told her to turn Harman's mic off. Puan stated that she didn't intentionally turn the mic off, but she turned it off because she wanted the proceeding to continue to proceed in order. Later, Partai Demokrat walked out from the ratification.

In 2021, during the confirmation hearing of General Andika Perkasa, Puan ignored the call of interruption by other lawmakers, closing down the meeting without acknowledging the call for interruption. Puan also rejected another interruption by Partai Keadilan Sejahtera during the ratification of Law on State Capital, claiming that as the majority of the party already agreed to pass the bill, the party that disagreed with the bill should only be heard after the ratification of the bill.

In 2022, Puan expressed her annoyance when she was not welcomed properly by the governor of a province when she made an official visit to that province, without disclosing the name of the province. She claimed that the governor of that province is disrespecting her even though she is the 23rd Speaker of the Indonesian People's Representative Council, and the governor of that province doesn't feel proud to be visited by her. It is speculated that Puan is talking about Ganjar Pranowo, as Ganjar is not welcoming Puan during her visit to Central Java.

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