Honorific-Prefix: | H. |
La Nyalla Mattalitti | |
Birthname: | La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti |
6th Speaker of the Senate of Indonesia | |
Term Start: | 1 October 2019 |
Predecessor: | Oesman Sapta Odang |
Title1: | Senator for East Java |
Term Start1: | 1 October 2019 |
Title2: | Chair of the Football Association of Indonesia |
Term Start2: | 18 April 2015 |
Term End2: | 30 May 2015 |
Predecessor2: | Djohar Arifin Husin |
Successor2: | Edy Rahmayadi |
Birth Place: | Jakarta, Indonesia |
Nationality: | Indonesian |
Birth Date: | 10 May 1959 |
La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti[1] (born 10 May 1959) is an Indonesian politician. He is the speaker of the Regional Representative Council, and was formerly chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI).
He was notorious for leading the Indonesian Football Savior Committee (KPSI) which stood as antithesis of PSSI during the first half of Djohar Arifin Husin's tenure. He is also known as one of the prominent member of Pemuda Pancasila, Indonesian paramilitary organization which has imaged as a political gangster organization.[2]
He was a staunch supporter of Prabowo Subianto and his party Gerindra since the 2009 presidential election until 2018. He denounced his support by saying that Prabowo and the party demanded him to pay Rp40 billion (around $2.5 million) for the East Java gubernatorial nomination in the 2018 election.[3] He then supported Prabowo's and once also his political rival Joko Widodo in the 2019 national election,[4] later apologizing for spreading hoax that stated Widodo is a communist.[5] In the same election, he ran for a seat in the Indonesian Senate from East Java.
LaNyalla's political career in the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia (DPD RI), when he was elected as a member of the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia in the 2019 election from the electoral district of East Java. The vote acquisition reached 2.2 million more. LaNyalla was elected as Chairman of the DPD RI by outperforming three other candidates, Nono Sampono, Mahyudin, and Sultan Baktiar Najamudin.