Heru Budi Hartono (born 13 December 1965) is an Indonesian bureaucrat who has been the acting Governor of Jakarta since 2022[2] and Head of the Presidential Secretariat since 2017.

He was the former Head of Jakarta Regional Asset Financial Management Agency under Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama between 2015 and 2017.

[7] Heru started his career at the North Jakarta's city government in 1993, where he served as a special staff to the mayor.

[7] During his tenure as the latter, Heru was involved in the eviction of the BMW city park residents, who were establishing squatter settlements in the area.

[10] During this period, Heru proposed a ban on the use of personal vehicles every Sunday of the first week of the month for chiefs of provincial and municipal agencies.

[11] After a year serving in the provincial government, Heru was appointed as the Mayor of North Jakarta, with his inauguration being held at the BMW city park on 12 January 2014.

To do so, he resumed the dredging process left by his predecessor, focusing on reclamation near the coast, expanding pumps throughout Jakarta to reduce the severity of flooding, and continuing the normalisation of the Ciliwung river.

[13] Another one of Heru's main goals as governor is to eradicate extreme poverty in Jakarta by 2024 by strengthening economic and basic public services.

[19] In March 2024, Heru Budi unilaterally revoked half of the (Kartu Jakarta Mahasiswa Unggul) KJMU scholarship recipients without reconfirmation, resulting in 12,000 poor students being threatened with dropping out of college.