Idrus Marham is an Indonesian politician who served as social affairs minister under President Joko Widodo for seven months in 2018 before resigning because of a corruption scandal.

He was jailed in 2019 for taking bribes from a businessman via a legislator to finance his failed bid to become chairman of Golkar Party.

In his final term in the legislature, he gained prominence as chairman of the DPR's special committee of inquiry into the Bank Century bailout controversy.

[8][9] At Golkar's national assembly in Denpasar, Bali, in December 2014, Idrus was re-elected as secretary general under Bakrie for the 2014–2019 period.

[10] Internal conflict in Golkar between Bakrie and rival politicians prompted the party to hold an Extraordinary National Deliberation (Munaslub) in Bali in May 2016.

[11] In June 2016, Idrus claimed Golkar's newly established executive committee was composed of "clean" members, who represented the principles of democracy, reconciliation, justice, constitutionality and honesty.

Idrus served as acting chairman of Golkar from November to December 2017, after Setya Novanto stepped down because of a corruption case involving electronic national identity cards.

[14] He was apprehended by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in August 2018 on suspicion of receiving bribes in relation to a coal-fired power plant in Riau province.

[15] On 13 July 2018, the KPK arrested Golkar Party legislator Eni Maulani Saragih on suspicion of corruption involving Blackgold Natural Resources Limited receiving approval from the Indonesian parliament for construction of the Riau-1 coal-fired power plant project.

[16] The KPK said former Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto had ordered Eni, who was deputy head of the DPR's commission on energy, to help Blackgold and China Huadian Engineering Company Limited to win the power plant construction project, valued at around US$900 million.

However, after Setya was named a suspect in the national ID card corruption case, Eni reported to Idrus on the matter, as he was now acting chairman of Golkar.

[17] When Idrus went on trial on 15 January 2019, prosecutors said he had told Eni to ask Kotjo for a bribe of $2.5 million, ostensibly to be used for Golkar's Extraordinary National Congress (Munaslub) in December 2017.

[19] Idrus then appealed to the Supreme Court, which in December 2019 announced it had cut his jail sentence to two years and his fine to Rp50 million.