Alifuddin

Alifuddin was born in Jakarta on 25 August 1965, in a Betawi family. He completed his basic education in public schools in Jakarta, then received a diploma in accounting from the Indonesian State College of Accountancy in 1988.{{cite news |last1=Kusumah |first1=Fanji Hadi |title=Kiprah Alifudin, Dari BPKP ke DPR RI |url=https://beritaparlemen.id/kiprah-alifudin-dari-bpkp-ke-dpr-ri/ |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=Berita Parlemen |date=12 April 2025 |language=id}} He would later receive a bachelor's (1998) and master's (2005) in management from Tanjungpura University.

After receiving his diploma, Alifuddin took on a civil servant job at the {{ill|Finance and Development Supervisory Board|id|Badan Pengawasan Keuangan dan Pembangunan}} for West Kalimantan in Pontianak, starting in 1988. He worked as an auditor.{{cite web |title=H. ALIFUDIN, S.E., M.M. |url=https://en.dpr.go.id/anggota/detail/id/1812 |publisher=House of Representatives |access-date=30 May 2025 |language=id}} In 1998, following the fall of Suharto, Alifuddin began to enter politics, and resigned from his civil servant work in order to run in the 1999 legislative election. He joined the Justice Party (renamed Prosperous Justice Party/PKS in 2002) and won a seat in Pontianak's Regional House of Representatives, becoming the first party member to have a seat there.

Alifuddin did not get a second term at Pontianak in 2004, and instead became a staffer to PKS' fraction in the House of Representatives (DPR) between 2006 and 2009. In the 2009 legislative election, he won a seat at the West Kalimantan Regional House of Representatives to represent Pontianak. He ran for a DPR seat in the 2014 legislative election,{{cite web |title=Daftar Calon Tetap Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia Tahun 2014 - Daerah Pemilihan Kalimantan Barat |url=https://www.kpu.go.id/dmdocuments/6101.KALBAR_DCT%20DPR.pdf |publisher=General Elections Commission |access-date=30 May 2025}} but was not elected.{{cite web |title=Pemilu DPR 2014 |url=http://www.pemilu.asia/?c=54&opt=3&s=104&y=2014&id=54912 |website=pemilu.asia |access-date=30 May 2025}} He ran again for a DPR seat in 2019, and was elected to represent West Kalimantan's 1st district with 45,516 votes. He was reelected for a second term in 2024 from the same district with 50,391 votes.

During both his first and second terms, he was part of the Ninth Commission, which covered healthcare, labor affairs, and social security.{{cite news |title=THR Nakes Dipotong Drastis, DPR Kecam Kebijakan yang tak Sesuai Arahan Presiden |url=https://madurapers.com/thr-nakes-dipotong-drastis-dpr-kecam-kebijakan-yang-tak-sesuai-arahan-presiden/ |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=Madurapers |date=30 March 2025 |language=id}} He has declared his opposition in 2019 to a hike in BPJS monthly payments{{cite news |title=Fraksi PKS DPR Komit Tolak Kenaikan Iuran BPJS Kesehatan |url=https://pontianak.suarakalbar.co.id/2019/11/fraksi-pks-dpr-komit-tolak-kenaikan.html |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=Suara Pontianak |date=3 November 2019 |language=id}} and in 2022 to a minimum pension payments age of 56.{{cite news |title=Anggota DPR Kritik JHT 56 Tahun, Sebut Menyakiti Hati Rakyat |url=https://populis.id/read10581/anggota-dpr-kritik-jht-56-tahun-sebut-menyakiti-hati-rakyat |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=Populis |date=14 February 2022 |language=id}} He has also supported increasing national healthcare spending to 10 percent of the national budget (from 4 percent in 2023).{{cite news |title=DPR Dorong Kenaikan Anggaran Kesehatan Minimal 10 Persen dari APBN-APBD |url=https://madurapers.com/dpr-dorong-kenaikan-anggaran-kesehatan-minimal-10-persen-dari-apbn-apbd/ |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=Madurapers |date=4 May 2023 |language=id}} During the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, Alifuddin opposed a government policy requiring negative testing results or a vaccine certificate to travel.{{cite news |title=Kebijakan Wajib PCR atau Antigen Bagi Pelaku Perjalanan Darat Dinilai Membebani Masyarakat |url=https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2021/11/02/16483371/kebijakan-wajib-pcr-atau-antigen-bagi-pelaku-perjalanan-darat-dinilai?page=all |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=KOMPAS.com |date=2 November 2021 |language=id}} In 2025, he pushed for the legislature to pass a "Family Resilience" ({{langx|id|Ketahanan Keluarga}}) law which would explicitly classify LGBT behavior as sexual deviancy and regulate family members to report such behaviors to the government.{{cite news |title=Polemik RUU Ketahanan Keluarga: 'Negara masuk ke kamar tidur warga negara' dan 'pelanggengan budaya patriarki' |url=https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/indonesia-51571135 |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=BBC News Indonesia |language=id}}{{cite news |title=Kasus grup Fantasi Sedarah, DPR dorong RUU Ketahanan Keluarga disahkan |url=https://www.antaranews.com/berita/4845001/kasus-grup-fantasi-sedarah-dpr-dorong-ruu-ketahanan-keluarga-disahkan |access-date=30 May 2025 |work=Antara News |date=20 May 2025 |language=id}} His push was in response to the publicization of an incest fantasy group on Facebook.

Within PKS, Alifuddin had been secretary of the party's West Kalimantan branch, part of its central committee, and was chairman of its provincial advisory council.

He married Susanti in 1988, and the couple has six sons and a daughter.{{cite web |title=Berkenalan Lebih Dekat dengan Keluarga Alifuddin |url=https://fraksi.pks.id/2020/06/22/berkenalan-lebih-dekat-dengan-keluarga-alifuddin/ |publisher=Prosperous Justice Party |access-date=30 May 2025 |language=id |date=22 June 2020}}

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Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Indonesia), 2019

Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Indonesia), 2024

Category:Tanjungpura University alumni

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Category:Betawi people