Abdul Kadir Karding, appointed as Minister for Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers/Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency, is alumni of Faculty of Fishery, Diponegoro University (UNDIP), year 1997. Abdul Kadir Karding is mandated as the Minister in “Kabinet Merah Puutih” for the 2024-2029 term under the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto. Abdul Kadir is also known as a senior legislator of Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (PKB) in Central Java.
Before got appointed as Minister for Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers, Abdul Kadir Karding was the legislator/member of House of Representative of Indonesia during 2009-2024, and member of House of Representative of Central Java Province during 1999-2009. During his college life during 1993-1996, he was an activist in campus and a leader of several organizations such as Chairman of the Student Senate of the Faculty of Fisheries UNDIP, Chairman III of the Student Senate of UNDIP, and Chairman I of the Coordinating Board of the Indonesian Islamic Student Movement (PMII) Central Java (1995-1996). After graduating from Diponegoro University, he joined Partai Kebangkitan Ba ngsa (PKB) Central Java branch as a path to becoming a legislator.
Born in Donggala, Central Sulawesi, in 1973, Abdul Kadir Karding graduated from Diponegoro, University from Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science (Faculty of Fisheries at that time) in 1997, and from Master Program in Public Administration in 2009. His activeness in organizations since his college days, both in internal organizations (Student Senate) and external campus (PMII). led him to be active in politics by becoming a member of a political party and establishing his political career as a member of parliament starting from the DPRD to the DPR RI from 1999 to 2024. Throughout his political career, he was in charge of Public Welfare affairs covering Employment-Science and Technology-Social-Culture-Women’s Empowerment, Trade and Industry affairs (including Cooperatives-SMEs-Investment), and the fields of Law-Human Rights-Security. From his experience while serving as a legislator, he has sufficient provisions to carry out his duties as Minister for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers/Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency.
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