Asep Surya Atmaja
Asep Surya Atmaja is an Indonesian physician and politician of the Labour Party. He has served as acting regent of Bekasi Regency since December 2025, after previously being regent from February to December 2025. He was also previously a municipal legislator between 2019 and 2024.
Early life
Asep Surya Atmaja was born in the village of Waluya, within Bekasi Regency, to Ojoy Jarkasih and Enjuh Juhriah on 22 June 1976. Jarkasih was village head of Waluya. After completing basic education within Bekasi, he studied medicine at Trisakti University, graduating in 2004.Career
After graduating from Trisakti, Atmaja practiced medicine and later opened his own clinic.In the 2019 Indonesian legislative election, Atmaja was elected into the Bekasi Regency's Regional House of Representatives as a Golkar member. Within the DPRD, he became head of Golkar's parliamentary faction.
In 2024, Atmaja unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the national House of Representatives from West Java's 7th district. Later that year, he received a recommendation from the Labour Party to run in Bekasi Regency's 2024 local election, and he resigned from Golkar in August 2024 to accept this recommendation. In the election, he became running mate to PDI-P's Ade Kuswara Kunang, and the pair won the election with 666,494 votes. They were sworn in on 20 February 2025.
As vice regent, Atmaja toured Bekasi's industrial parks to lobby the companies to increase the proportion of local employees. On 20 December 2025, following Kunang's arrest by the Corruption Eradication Commission, Atmaja was appointed acting regent.