Abdul Wahid

Abdul Wahid (Jawi: عبد الوحيد; born 21 November 1980) is an Indonesian politician of the National Awakening Party (PKB) who is the 15th governor of Riau, serving since February 2025. He was previously a legislator, representing Riau's 2nd electoral district in the House of Representatives between 2019 and 2024, and a member of the Riau Regional House of Representatives for two terms in 2009–2019.

Early life Abdul Wahid was born on 21 November 1980 in the hamlet of Anak Peria, in Indragiri Hilir Regency of Riau. After completing Islamic middle school in Indragiri Hilir, he studied at an Islamic boarding school in Agam. He then studied Islamic education at the Sultan Syarif Kasim II State Islamic University in Pekanbaru, graduating in 2004.

Career By 2002, while studying at Syarif Kasim, he had become a member of the Muslim Students' Association and joined the National Awakening Party (PKB).

In the 2019 election, Wahid ran for a seat in the national House of Representatives (DPR) in Riau's 2nd district. He won 55,770 votes and secured a seat, the majority of his voters coming from his home regency of Indragiri Hilir. He was reelected in the 2024 election from the same district, with 101,400 votes. He resigned from his DPR seat on 23 September 2024 to run as governor of Riau in the 2024 gubernatorial election, fellow PKB member replacing him for the remainder of his term. Wahid won 1,224,193 votes (44.3%) in the three-way gubernatorial election, and was elected. On 3 November 2025, he was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission in a sting operation, under charges of extortion related to Riau's public works department.