Melani Leimena Suharli

Melani Leimena Suharli (born 27 January 1951) is an Indonesian politician from the Democratic Party who served as a member of the House of Representatives between 2009 and 2024.

Her father, Johannes Leimena, was a deputy prime minister and is a National Hero of Indonesia, and founded the Indonesian Christian Party.

[1][2] Although her extended family are Christians, Suharli adheres to Islam[3] and she owns a Hajj travel bureau company known as Al-Amin, which was accused of benefiting from preferential treatment from the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

[6] She was reelected from the same electoral district in the 2014 legislative election,[7] and was assigned to the body's sixth commission.

[9] She pushed for a proposed sexual violence bill to be included in the country's legislative program in 2015, and called for the government to declare a sexual assault emergency, citing increasing occurrences.