Jari Tapani Lindström (born 28 June 1965) is a Finnish politician and former Minister of Employment.

[1] He represented the Finns Party till 2017 and was first elected to the Parliament in 2011 in the former constituency of Kymi.

[2] In the 2015 elections he maintained his seat, standing in the newly formed South-Eastern constituency.

[3][4] On 13 June 2017, Lindström and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the New Alternative parliamentary group, which later formed into a political party called Blue Reform.

[4] In 2020 Lindström published his memoirs Syvään päähän where he reflected his time as both MP and minister, and also the splitting of the Finns Party in 2017.