Rudi Gunawan

Career After graduating, Gunawan became a lawyer. He established his own practice, Gunawan & Associates Law Firm, in 1985. The firm consulted the West Java Regional People's Representative Council and the province's government between 1999 and 2009. He also was appointed commissioner in several companies, and had run in Garut's 2008 regency election although he lost. Gunawan and Budiman were reelected in the 2018 election, winning 428,113 votes (35.8%).

In 2018, he established a special team to track the creator of a homosexual group on social media (which had 2,500 members), and asked for support from the local military district. During a teacher's strike that same year, he threatened to remove principals who paused teaching activities. He also prohibited festivities on the New Year's Eve of that year, citing the mourning due the natural disasters occurring across the country and requested that money meant for festivities be donated to the victims.