Nurhajizah Marpaung (born 7 August 1956) is an Indonesian retired military officer and politician who became the Vice Governor of North Sumatra from 2017 until 2018.

[3] One of the notable cases that she handled was the Tanjung Priok massacre trial in October 2003, where she and two other military justice officer became the legal representative for Rudolf Adolf Butar Butar, former commander of the North Jakarta military district, who was accused of violating human rights during the incident.

A year later, she was appointed as the general counsel of the Ministry of Defense on 28 June 2011,[6] replacing A. Affandi who retired earlier that month.

[1] Nurhajizah registered as a candidate for the 2015 Asahan regent election on 3 August 2015, in which she picked Amir Syarifuddin as his running mate.

[14] Similar to other retired military officer competing in that year local elections, analysts credited her defeat to the lack of her prominence in the region.

[15] On 3 August 2015, Governor of North Sumatra Gatot Pujo Nugroho and her wife were arrested due to corruption.

[19] Nurhajizah was nominated for the vice governor's office by Hanura, the main supporting party of Erry Nuradi.

[23] The gubernatorial election process was disputed by the chairman of the North Sumatra Ulema National Awakening Party, Muhammad Ikhyar Velayati Harahap.

The court demanded the cancellation of the presidential decree that officially made Nurhajizah as the vice governor and to held another internal parliamentary election with the participation of non-parliamentary parties.

[24][25] A survey conducted by Indo Barometer [id] in February 2018 found out that only 9.8% of the respondents were satisfied with Nurhajizah's performance as the vice governor of North Sumatra, while 34.2% were dissatisfied.

[28] Nurhajizah was registered as a candidate from the North Sumatera 3 constituency, covering Asahan, Simalungun, Dairi, Karo, Langkat, Pakpak Bharat, Batubara, Tanjungbalai, Pematangsiantar, and Binjai.

Nurhajizah picked Henri Siregar, a member of the Asahan parliament from the Prosperous Justice Party, as her running mate.