Badingah

Early life and family Badingah was born on 17September 1949 in Gunung Kidul Regency to Hadi Utomo and Sudjinah. She completed high school in the regency capital of Wonosari, graduating in 1968 before later receiving a bachelor's degree in 2003. The couple had three children.

Career While her husband was alive, Badingah was active in politics, leading Golkar's women wing in Gunung Kidul starting in 1999.

Regent Around three months into their term, on 3November 2010, Putro died of a heart attack following an orientation trip held by the Home Affairs ministry. Badingah succeeded him initially as acting regent. She would be appointed as formal regent on 3March 2011. She was the first female regent in Gunung Kidul. PAN's Immawan Wahyudi was appointed as her vice regent.

During her first term, Badingah imposed a ban on mining activities in the karst hills within the regency. In 2014, a local Islamic group disputed the legality of a newly built Pentecostal Church in Gunung Kidul, and the church was closed with the pastor expelled. The pastor reached out to Badingah, who assigned senior civil servant Tommy Harahap to mediate the groups. She also took part in person during community discussions, and the church was reopened in March2015. She also expanded emergency services in the regency with donations of firefighting and ambulance cars from Toyota in 2015.

Badingah with Wahyudi ran for a second and full term in the 2015regency election, receiving the support of PAN, Golkar, Nasdem, PPP, and Hanura. They won reelection with 167,915votes (39.53%), defeating three other candidates. Their second term began on 17February 2016. During her second term, Badingah focused on development of tourism in the regency, including the development of destinations such as . Badingah further promoted female education within Gunung Kidul in order to suppress child marriage. In December2020, she launched a public service mall in the regency for administrative services.

Other activities In 2018, the NasDem Party assigned Badingah to the campaign team of Joko Widodo in the 2019election, but she rejected the position. It then became known that she was registered as a member of both Nasdem and PAN. On another occasion, a candidate in Gunung Kidul's 2024 regency election claimed Badingah's membership in their campaign team, which she publicly denied.

Badingah owns and operates several retail stores in the regency seat of Wonosari, including a furniture shop and three pharmacy outlets. After her tenure as regent expired in 2021, she stated that she will return to focusing on her business.