Ma'ruf Amin

Ma'ruf Amin
Ma'ruf Amin
Faction represented in People's Representative Council
1997–1998	United Development Party
1998–2004	National Awakening Party
Faction represented in Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council
1971–1973	Groups of Nahdlatul Ulama
1973–1982	United Development Party

Ma'ruf Amin
Ma'ruf Amin
	Official portrait, 2019
13th Vice President of Indonesia
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 20 October 2019
President	Joko Widodo
Preceded by	Jusuf Kalla
Chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council
	In office; 27 August 2015 – 27 November 2020; Inactive from 20 October 2019 to 27 November 2020
Preceded by	Din Syamsuddin
Succeeded by	Zainut Tauhid Sa'adi (acting); Yunahar Ilyas (acting); Miftachul Achyar
Supreme Leader of Nahdlatul Ulama
	In office; 6 August 2015 – 22 September 2018
Preceded by	Mustofa Bisri
Succeeded by	Miftachul Achyar
Other roles
2007–2014	Member of Presidential Advisory Council
2017–2019	Member of Pancasila Ideology Development Agency Steering Committee
Personal details
Born	Ma'ruf al-Kharki; 11 March 1943; Tangerang, Japanese East Indies
Political party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	PPP (1973–1998); PKB (1998–2006); PKNU (2006–2011);
Spouses	Siti Churiyah (m. 1964; died 2012); Wury Estu Handayani (m. 2014)
Children	9
Education	Tebuireng Islamic Boarding School (1958–1961); Bogor Ibn Khaldun University (1964–1967); Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University Malang (honorary degree, 2017);
Occupation	Politician; Islamic cleric; lecturer;
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Ma'ruf Amin (born 11 March 1943) is an Indonesian politician, Islamic cleric, and lecturer who is the 13th and current vice president of Indonesia. Aged nearly 77 years old when inaugurated, he is the oldest Indonesian vice president to ever be sworn in.

He was the chairman of the Ulema Council of Indonesia (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, or MUI) when he accepted the vice-presidential nomination. On 9 August 2018, President Joko Widodo announced that Ma'ruf would be his running mate in the 2019 Indonesian presidential election. Following his candidacy, he resigned as Supreme Leader (rais 'aam syuriah) of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world's largest Islamic organization.

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