45 Facts About Ganjar Pranowo

Ganjar Pranowo was born on 28 October 1968 and is an Indonesian politician who served as the governor of Central Java between 2013 and 2023.

Ganjar Pranowo is a member of the nationalist Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.

Ganjar Pranowo was a candidate for president in the 2024 Indonesian presidential elections, running alongside former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia, Mahfud MD and coming in third place.

Ganjar Pranowo was born Ganjar Sungkowo on 28 October 1968, as the fifth of the six children of a family in a village on the slopes of Mount Lawu, Karanganyar, to S Pamudji Pramudi Wiryo, a police officer, and Sri Suparni, a homemaker.

Ganjar Pranowo's father took part in counter-insurgency operations, including the crackdown of PRRI rebels.

Ganjar Pranowo later married Pamudji and had six children, including Ganjar who was the youngest son, and continued to sell petrol with him.

Ganjar Pranowo served as a chairman of the Justicia Student Club, a nature lovers organization founded by UGM Law Faculty students, from 1988 until 1990.

Ganjar Pranowo graduated with a law degree in 1994 with his thesis examiner Professor Nindyo Pramono.

Ganjar Pranowo was involved in student demonstrations during college and often protested against government, and university policies.

Ganjar Pranowo earned a postgraduate degree from Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at University of Indonesia, graduating in the Political Science Masters program.

Ganjar Pranowo worked for other companies, including PT Prastawana Karya Samitra and PT Semeru Realindo Inti.

Active in GMNI and admiring Indonesia's founding president Sukarno, Ganjar Pranowo joined the Indonesian Democratic Party, which was created with a Sukarnoist core, in 1996.

Ganjar Pranowo later created a splinter, PDI-P, which complete version means the rebel faction of PDI.

Ganjar Pranowo witnessed firsthand the deadly 27 July 1996 incident when a mob of police officers and soldiers in civilian garb stormed the PDI headquarters.

Ganjar Pranowo then helped a journalist who had been shot and said the incident was the moment that resonated most with him regarding the May 1998 riots of Indonesia.

Fresh-faced, folksy, and articulate, former student protester Ganjar Pranowo quickly rose in popularity as a politician who has the gift of speaking to the public and media.

Ganjar Pranowo became known to the public as a member of the Special Inquiry Committee for the Bank Century Bailout for the opposition, giving him opportunities to convey public discontent over government policies for selected banks.

Ganjar Pranowo's thesis focused on the independence of the General Elections Commission, specifically the government at the time and two of its governing parties' stance on whether representatives of political parties should be allowed on the commission.

Ganjar Pranowo did not finish his second term in parliament after he won the 2013 Central Java gubernatorial election.

Ganjar Pranowo ran an anti-corruption campaign with the slogan "mboten korupsi, mboten ngapusi" against the incumbent Bibit Waluyo, a former general who was facing graft allegations.

Ganjar Pranowo made a breakthrough by requiring all state civil servants which numbered more than 40,000 in the Central Java Provincial Government to pay zakat.

In 2016, Ganjar Pranowo launched a program to form disaster-resilient villages.

Ganjar Pranowo helped form 100 independent villages, mostly in areas that have the potential to become tourist destinations and deliver natural resources for community development.

Ganjar Pranowo has stepped up efforts to reduce stunting and maternal and infant mortality, and launched a campaign to prevent early marriage, which is widespread in the province.

Ganjar Pranowo ran for re-election in 2018 with a strategy of expanding his nationalist-based vote bank by including conservative Muslims through a young running mate from the Islamist United Development Party Taj Yasin Maimoen [id].

Ganjar Pranowo even lost against his challenger, former energy minister Sudirman Said in the regency of Purbalingga which he represented as a national legislator.

Ahead of the presidential election in February 2024, Ganjar Pranowo was the subject of media speculation on whether or not he would run for the presidency.

Ganjar Pranowo was officially announced as PDI-P's candidate on 21 April 2023.

Ganjar Pranowo was joined by Mahfud MD, a senior Minister and former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia, as his running mate in the presidential campaign.

Ganjar Pranowo revealed his seven strategy campaign to eradicate poverty in Indonesia which consists of building human resources, stabilizing basic prices, strengthening social safety nets, downstreaming industry to become world class, increasing the value of infrastructure that has been built by the government, and returning Indonesia's nature to a better state.

Ganjar Pranowo is mentioned in the document as Ganjar Pranowo Prastowo.

Ganjar Pranowo confirmed that what Ganjar Pranowo Prastowo meant in the document was himself and said that at that time he was invited abroad by BI.

Novel stated that there was not enough evidence that Ganjar Pranowo was involved in the corruption case in the procurement of electronic KTPs.

Ganjar Pranowo even admitted that he saw the money handed over to Ganjar, who at that time was Deputy Chair of Commission II of the DPR.

Ganjar Pranowo later admitted he was offered the bribes, but he refused.

Until 2018, the KPK stated that they had no evidence that Ganjar Pranowo received money in the e-KTP corruption case.

However in 2022, Ganjar Pranowo was reported to the KPK again for this case.

Ganjar Pranowo said that he saw first-hand several people who gave money to officers to avoid official fines for overweight loads.

Ganjar Pranowo became a target of protest from farmers who opposed his environmental permit for the activities of the national cement company Semen Indonesia Group in Rembang Regency through a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta.

Amid resident insistence that the factory should be shut down after the Supreme Court ruling, Ganjar Pranowo stated that his administration would do so only under the order of the central government.

When one of his followers asked why is he watching it, Ganjar Pranowo actually answered that where was his mistake because he was an adult and already had a wife, and then stated that watching [pornographic films] for adults was sometimes necessary.

Ganjar Pranowo praised the student for his honesty and described him as a person with leadership potential.

In 2023, Ganjar Pranowo called a ban on the entry of the Israel national football team to Indonesia during the country's hosting of the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup, citing his and the country's historic support for the Palestinian cause, and refused to host the team, which was supposed to play a match in Central Java.

Ganjar Pranowo married Siti Atiqoh Supriyanti, the daughter of Akhmad Musodik and Astuti Supriyadi, on 25 September 1999.

Ganjar Pranowo is a huge fan of the association football club Manchester United.