[3] During this tenure, he worked on relocating street vendors from Tanah Abang and Monas,[4] and was also appointed commissioner to Persija Jakarta in 2013 while the football club was experiencing a financial crisis and player strikes.

[5] On 11 July 2014, then-acting governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama appointed Saefullah into the post of Jakarta's regional secretary, the highest-ranked bureaucratic office in the provincial government.

[4] According to Basuki, while another bureaucrat Sylviana Murni had placed higher in the competency test, Saefullah was appointed due to his younger age.

[12] He was proposed by Gerindra in November 2019 as a potential vice governor to replace Sandiaga Uno, though the office went to Ahmad Riza Patria.

[13] Saefullah, alongside West Jakarta mayor Uus Kuswanto, were confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19 on 13 September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.