[1] Ahmad is married to Raden Euis Handayani and has had a daughter, Dinda Ghania Althafunnisa, a singer.

[2] After working for some time, Ahmad had done some business with Fadli Zon, and from this connection, he entered politics.

Ahmad became a founding member of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), and in 2008 he was appointed as the chairman of its central committee.

[8] Ahmad was reelected to the council from the same district with 99,002 votes following the 2019 elections,[4] and he was appointed one of the body's deputy speakers.

[11] In 2024, Tempo magazine reported that he "earned his professorship without fulfilling the 10-year teaching requirement, while his papers were published in journals that were either discontinued or not indexed by Scopus.