La Nyalla Mattalitti

La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti[1] (born 10 May 1959) is an Indonesian politician. He is the speaker of the Regional Representative Council, and was formerly chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI).

H. La Nyalla Mattalitti
Speaker of Regional Representative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2019
Preceded by	Oesman Sapta Odang
Chair of the Football Association of Indonesia
In office 18 April 2015 – 30 May 2015
Preceded by	Djohar Arifin Husin
Succeeded by	Edy Rahmayadi
Personal details
Born	La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti (1959-05-10) 10 May 1959 Jakarta, Indonesia
Alma mater	Brawijaya University

He was notorious for leading the Indonesian Football Savior Committee (KPSI) which stood as antithesis of PSSI during the first half of Djohar Arifin Husin's tenure. He is also known as one of the prominent member of Pemuda Pancasila, Indonesian paramilitary organization which has imaged as a political gangster organization.[2]

He was a staunch supporter of Prabowo Subianto and his party Gerindra since the 2009 presidential election until 2018. He denounced his support by saying that Prabowo and the party demanded him to pay Rp40 billion (around $2.5 million) for the East Java gubernatorial nomination in the 2018 election.[3] He then supported Prabowo's and once also his political rival Joko Widodo in the 2019 national election,[4] later apologizing for spreading hoax that stated Widodo is a communist.[5] In the same election, he ran for a seat in the Indonesian Senate from East Java.

LaNyalla's political career in the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia (DPD RI), when he was elected as a member of the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia in the 2019 election from the electoral district of East Java. The vote acquisition reached 2.2 million more. LaNyalla was elected as Chairman of the DPD RI by outperforming three other candidates, Nono Sampono, Mahyudin, and Sultan Baktiar Najamudin. Lanyalla wants to create a representative function of the DPD RI by building communication and absorbing aspirations, problems faced by regional governments. Make a real contribution through the settlement of the Central Government. His efforts to bring the DPD RI closer to the regions were manifested through a tagline that became the Senators' working spirit, 'Dari Daerah untuk Indonesia'. He and all the other DPD members are determined to make the DPD a regional 'advocate', with a priority scale on three essential issues, First, accelerating regional development. Second, an increase in the regional fiscal independence index and the equal distribution of community prosperity in the regions.