Surabaya's Woman Warrior

Surabaya's Woman Warrior

Ever heard a woman that shake all Surabaya citizen?

Never? then, let me introduce you

To the bravest and toughest woman 

Where she is feared and respected by all her citizens

She is ...

Dr. (H.C.) Ir. Tri Rismaharini M.T

23rd Mayor of Surabaya

Personal Information

Born : November 20th 1961 Kediri, East Java, Indonesia

Citizenship : Indonesia

Political Parties : Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan

Husband : Ir. Djoko Saptoadji

Children : Fuad Bernardi & Tantri Gurnani

Almamater : Institute Technology Sepuluh November

Jobs : Engineer & Politician 

or familiarly called Risma (born in Kediri, East Java, November 20, 1961; age 57 years) is the Major of Surabaya who has served since February 17, 2016. Previously, she served as mayor of Surabaya on September 28 2010 to 28 September 2015. Risma was the first woman chosen as Major of Surabaya throughout history. Risma was also listed as the first woman who was directly elected as major through regional elections throughout the history of Indonesian democracy in the reform era and was the first female regional head in Indonesia who repeatedly entered the list of the world's best leaders.

Through direct elections, Risma replaces Bambang Dwi Hartono who later served as his deputy. The Risma-Bambang pair was promoted by PDI-P and won the 2010 Surabaya regional election with 358,187 votes or 38.53 percent of the total votes. The couple was inaugurated on September 28, 2010 by the Governor of East Java Soekarwo in the plenary session of the Surabaya City Council. But in the middle of his term of office, Bambang DH resigned on June 14, 2013 because he was advanced as a candidate for the Governor of East Java in the 2013 East Java elections. After Bambang's resignation, Risma was accompanied by Whisnu Sakti Buana, the son of the PDI-P senior politician / deputy chairman of the Indonesian MPR RI 1999-2004 period, Ir. Soetjipto, who was chosen by acclamation as the deputy major of Surabaya in the plenary session of the Surabaya City DPRD on November 8, 2013 and was officially inaugurated on January 24, 2014.

In the 2015 Simultaneous Local Election, the Risma-Whisnu pair was carried by the PDI-P and re-elected with an absolute victory of 893,087 votes or 86.34 percent of the total votes. Tri Rismaharini and Whisnu Sakti Buana were appointed as mayors and deputy mayors of Surabaya for 2016-2021 on February 17, 2016 by East Java Governor Soekarwo at the Grahadi State Building in conjunction with the inauguration of 16 regents / mayors as a result of the 2015 Simultaneous Election in East Java.

Before becoming major, Risma served as Head of the Surabaya City Sanitation and Parks Agency (DKP) and Head of the Surabaya City Planning Agency (Bappeko) until 2010. Risma worked as a civil servant (PNS) in Surabaya since the 1990s.

On September 14, 2018 at the 2018 UCLG-ASPAC Congress (Association of Municipal and Regional Governments in Asia Pacific) in Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini was elected by acclamation as President of the UCLG-ASPAC for 2018-2020 serving for Governor of Jeju, South Korea, Won Hee-ryong.

Education

Tri Rismaharini took basic education at Kediri State Elementary School and graduated in 1973. She continued her education to Surabaya 10 Public Middle School, graduated in 1976, then continued his education to Surabaya 5 Public High School and graduated in 1980. She completed her undergraduate education in Architecture majoring in the November 10 Institute of Technology (ITS) Surabaya and graduated in 1987. She then continued her postgraduate education in City Development Management at the Surabaya November 10 Institute of Technology (ITS), graduating in 2002. In the ITS EXPO event, April 2014, Tri Rismaharini revealed the desire to become a lecturer at the alma mater after finishing serving as a Major of Surabaya. On March 4, 2015, she received an honorary doctorate from Honoris Causa from the Surabaya Ten November Institute of Technology (ITS). The honorary degree was awarded in the field of Urban Development Management in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning.

Job History

• Head of the Spatial and Land Use Section of the Surabaya City Development Planning Agency (1997)
• Head of Data Collection and Counseling Section of Surabaya City Building Agency (2001)
• Head of Surabaya City Parks Department (2001)
• Head of Development Development Section (2002)
• Head of Research and Development Section (2005)
• Head of Surabaya City Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (2005)
• Head of Surabaya City Development Planning Agency (2008)
• Mayor of Surabaya (2010-2015; 2016-Present)
• President of the United Cities and Local Governments of Asia-Pacific (2018-Present)
• Chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle for Education and Culture (2019-Present)

Political Progress

Mayor of Surabaya

Tri Rismaharini began to organize the City of Surabaya from the bad arrangement since she became the Head of DKP. She continued this task since being appointed mayor in 2010. During her leadership at the DKP, to become mayor, Surabaya became more beautiful and well-organized than ever before, greener and fresher.

City Planning

The city parks built by Risma are the restoration of the bungkul park on Jalan Raya Darmo with the concept of all-in-one entertainment park, the park at the Dolog Roundabout, the Undaan fruit park, and the park at Bawean, and in several other places that used to die now every night filled with residents of Surabaya. In addition, Risma also built a pedestrian path with modern concepts along the Basuki Rahmat road, which then continued to Tunjungan, Blauran and Panglima Sudirman.

Taman Bungkul Incident

On May 11, 2014, the Wall's ice cream company under the auspices of PT. Unilever Indonesia held a free ice cream distribution event for the people of Surabaya. This event was held in Taman Bungkul. Free ice cream distribution is done in the middle of the park. Residents then flocked to the point of distribution of ice cream to break through plants. Even bicycle vehicles also step on the plants there. Conditions are getting out of control, roads are getting stuck, and crops are badly damaged.

Police & Satpol PP then dispersed the event around 10:00 WIB.

Shortly thereafter, Risma came to the location. She then became furious when she saw the condition of the plants in Bungkul Park. As soon as she arrived she commented that all plants were damaged. Without further ado, she immediately approached the organizers of the ice cream distribution program. "Do you know how long we need to make Taman Bungkul beautiful?!," She said in a high voice. Risma then asked her staff at the City of Surabaya Sanitation and Parks Department to report the event's organizer to legal action. He asked his staff to use the law on environmental destruction as a basis for the report.

PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk, as the organizer of the free Wall's ice cream distribution program at Taman Bungkul, Sunday, May 11, 2014, is ready to take responsibility and bear all the costs of losses suffered by the Surabaya City Government. The park damage incident due to the increase in the number of residents who came was an event that was not predicted by the organizer.

Area Sales Manager of East Java PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk, Dion Aji Setiawan said, it did not expect that, the enthusiasm of Surabaya citizens for free ice cream was very high. From the organizing committee, only 10,000 were prepared. But, visitors came to reach 70,000 people. In fact, there are also many visitors who come from outside the city of Surabaya. "We will make this event a lesson. We will soon go to Mrs. Risma. We will repair all existing damage, " he said

Appreciation 

During her leadership as mayor, Surabaya City won seven adipura kencana trophies in a row, namely in 2011 to 2017 for the metropolitan city category, and plenary adipura in 2016.

In addition, Risma's leadership also brought Surabaya to become the city with the best participation in the Asia Pacific in the 2012 version of Citynet for the success of the city government and people's participation in managing the environment.

In October 2013, the City of Surabaya under its leadership also received an Asia-Pacific level award which is the Future Government Awards 2013 in two fields at once namely data center and digital inclusion, setting aside 800 cities throughout the Asia-Pacific.

Surabaya applies a fast clearing system (central clearing house) by taking inspiration from the customer response system of McDonald's fast food restaurants. Residents can send complaints and suggestions by telephone, sms, electronic mail, fax, internet and social media sites. Surabaya built a Broadband Learning Center to provide training for farmers to connect to an online service system network. This system makes it easy for farmers and other sector workers to build access to marketing products.

The bungkul park that she had been awarded also won the 2013 Asian Townscape Award from the United Nations as the best park in Asia in 2013. In February 2014, Tri Rismaharini was named the Major of the Month or the best mayor in the world for February 2014 for its success while leading the city of Surabaya as a metropolitan city with the best arrangement.

At the end of 2014, Surabaya received the FutureGov version of the Future City international award for the Surabaya Single Window (SSW). This award is given for the Surabaya City investment permit ease service system.

In February 2015, Tri Rismaharini was named the third best city mayor in the world by the World City Mayors Foundation for its success in changing the face of Surabaya from its shady arrangement to a greener and neatly organized city. This award was given to Risma because she was considered as an energetic figure who enthusiastically promoted social, economic and environmental policies nationally and internationally and was considered successful in utilizing dead land and turning it into a city park. Risma was also praised for her courage in closing down the largest localization area in Southeast Asia, Gang Dolly, and her rapid response in handling victims of the AirAsia QZ8501 incident.

In March 2015, the name Tri Rismaharini entered the ranks of 50 influential figures in the world of Fortune magazine along with other figures such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and other figures. Risma is considered successful in making many extraordinary breakthroughs in Surabaya about the environment, and she is also considered to have succeeded in transforming a large city with millions of residents full of pollution, traffic jams, and slums into an organized metropolitan city, rich in landscape parks and other green spaces. Risma is also considered successful in turning many arid burial grounds into water absorption rooms so that they can ward off flooding.

For its success in rebuilding the image of the city of Surabaya to be neat and humane, as well as his achievements as a regional head who devoted himself to the people, on August 13, 2015, Tri Rismaharini received the Bintang Jasa Utama award from President Joko Widodo along with 14 other figures at the State Palace , Jakarta. Bintang Jasa Utama is the highest award given to civilians.

In November 2015, Risma received an anti-corruption award from the Bung Hatta Anti Corruption Award. She received this award together with the Regent of Batang Yoyok Riyo Sudibyo. This award was obtained because during his tenure as mayor of Surabaya, Risma was considered successful in building Surabaya into a beautiful and orderly city and developing an e-procurement system so that the auction process would be transparent and free of corruption.She was also considered successful in building an e-government system in Surabaya which made it easier to control expenditure on offices, prevent corruption, and save a budget of 600-800 billion rupiah each year.

In July 2018, the City of Surabaya under the leadership of Tri Rismaharini was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew City Prize together with Hamburg, Germany; Kazan, Russia; and Tokyo, Japan. This award was obtained because Surabaya is considered as one of the major cities in the world that is able to maintain and manage villages in the middle of the city with excellent government management and community participation amid the rapidly growing city development rate. Surabaya became the first city in Indonesia to receive this award. This award was received directly by the Mayor of Risma

That's why i really idolize her, she was the main role i really want to be. She is really tough and brave, always cared, and never gave up. She always be my idol or someone i really appreciate her presence. Just 3 years in Surabaya and i already admire her like i'm gonna lose her. I really want to be like her, smart, kind, bravery, all good side of her. In the future, i really hope i can be like her. Appreciate by many people but stay humble. 

"A successful leader is a leader who can give everyone the chance to succeed."

"Success and success are the rights of all people."

"You deserve success because God is just."

"Humans can change, if you look at the example of their leader."

"I will feel satisfied and happy if the work can go well. That makes me excited again."

"When I go somewhere, I find something and I immediately solve the problem."

"I always check something down to the details."

-Tri Risma Harini

Question :

1. Who is the woman who shake all Surabaya citizen?

2. What date is Mrs. Risma was born?

3. What high school that she was graduated?

4. What have been done since she was a mayor?

5. What kind of trophy does Surabaya got because of Mrs. Risma?