Ade Yasin
Ade Yasin is an Indonesian lawyer and former politician of the United Development Party who was the regent of Bogor Regency between 2018 and 2022, after previously serving as a municipal legislator between 2009 and 2018. She was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission for bribing state auditors in 2022 and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Early life
Ade Yasin was born on 29 May 1968 in Bogor Regency to Yasin and Nuryati. Ade's father was an early founder of the United Development Party in Bogor, and had served in the local legislatures of both Bogor Regency and Bogor City. She studied in Bogor, graduating from high school in 1987 and continuing her studies until she received her master's degree from. After graduating, she began to work as a lawyer.Career
She took part in the 2009 Indonesian legislative election as a PPP member and was elected into the Bogor Regency Regional House of Representatives. She was reelected to a second term in 2014. In 2018, she ran in the regency election and won with 912,221 votes. She was sworn in as regent on 30 December 2018.As regent, Yasin increased the time allocated to religious studies in Bogor Regency's state-funded schools, receiving an award from the Ministry of Religious Affairs for the policy. She also initiated a rural infrastructure funding program, which in 2021 and 2022 disbursed Rp 400 billion to Bogor's villages – Rp 1 billion per village annually.