Amat Antono

Amat Antono (born 5 October 1958) is an Indonesian politician who served as the regent of Pekalongan Regency, Central Java for two terms, 2001–2006 and 2011–2016.

[1] Before entering politics, Antono was a bureaucrat, working in the transmigration body at West Kalimantan's Sambas Regency.

[2]: 123 [4] Between his terms, he served in several offices, including head of an inter-regency coordination body,[5] briefly as the acting regent of Tegal Regency,[1] and as a special staff to the governor.

[1] He ran once more in 2011 and this time won 254,762 votes (54.75%), defeating Qomariyah following a campaign which strongly focused on infrastructure development programs.

[7] In the 2019 legislative election, Antono ran as a Nasdem Party candidate for the People's Representative Council from Central Java's 10th electoral district.