Anak Agung Gede Ngurah Puspayoga | |
Office: | 10th Minister of Cooperatives and Small & Medium Enterprises |
Term Start: | 27 October 2014 |
Term End: | 23 October 2019 |
President: | Joko Widodo |
Predecessor: | Muhammad Lutfi (Acting) |
Successor: | Teten Masduki |
Office2: | Vice Governor of Bali |
Term Start2: | 28 August 2008 |
Term End2: | 28 August 2013 |
President2: | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono |
Predecessor2: | I Gusti Ngurah Alit Kusuma Kelakan |
Successor2: | I Ketut Sudikerta |
Office3: | 3rd Mayor of Denpasar |
Term Start3: | 2000 |
Term End3: | 2008 |
Governor3: | Dewa Made Beratha |
Predecessor3: | Komang Arsana |
Successor3: | I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra |
Birth Date: | 7 July 1965 |
Birth Place: | Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia |
Nationality: | Indonesian |
Party: | Indonesian Democratic Party |
Spouse: | I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati |
Alma Mater: | Ngurah Rai University |
Governor2: | I Made Mangku Pastika |
Anak Agung Gede Ngurah Puspayoga (born 7 July 1965) is an Indonesian politician. He was Indonesia's Minister of Cooperatives and Small & Medium Enterprises under President Joko Widodo's Working Cabinet between 2014 and 2019.[1] Previously, he served as the Vice Governor of Bali from 2008 to 2013 and Mayor of Denpasar, Bali's capital city, from 2000 to 2008.
Puspayoga was born on 7 July 1965 in Denpasar, Bali. His father, Cok Sayoga, was a prominent PDI-P party figure in Bali, having a close relationship with the party's chairman, Megawati Sukarnoputri, since the 1980s.[2] He obtained his bachelor's degree from Ngurah Rai University in 1991.
Puspayoga hold his first political office as the member of Bali's local parliament from PDI-P in 1999. He became the mayor of Denpasar the following year, a position which he would hold for eight years. In 2008, he won the Bali gubernatorial election, running along with I Made Mangku Pastika. He then served with Pastika as his deputy until 2013.[3]
He ran for Bali's governor office in 2013, choosing Dewa Nyoman Sukriawan as his running mate. He subsequently lost the election to the incumbent governor and former superior, Pastika.[4]
On 26 October 2014, the newly elected Indonesian President Joko Widodo named him as Minister of Cooperatives and Small & Medium Enterprises.
He is married to I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati, who was appointed as Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection in 2019.[5]