[1][2] Muchlas served as a delegate representing ITKF at the 28th World Congress of The Association for International Sports for All (TAFISA) held in Dusseldorf, Germany, in November 2023.

[5] He completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta in 1998, and obtained a Master's in Management from STIE IBMT Surabaya in 2019.

In 1998, he became a public relations officer for the Indonesian Travel Agency Association in Yogyakarta and a director at Muhammadiyah-owned company PT Surya Sarana Utama.

[14] In the same year, Muchlas also served as the Secretary General of ITKF for the Asia/Oceania region concurrent with the World Traditional Karate Championship in Slovenia, involving 35 countries.

[16] One of his focuses in the council was the issue of Gross Enrollment Ratio in Higher Education which in 2023 was still far from the target of the 2024 National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) and required synergy between private and public universities.