Ginandjar Kartasasmita

In October 2004, Ginandjar was elected the first speaker of the newly formed DPD. He won 72 of 128 votes in a run-off against Irman Gusman, who together with La Ode Ida became his deputies. He completed his five-year term on 1 October 2009 and was succeeded by Irman Gusman.

In late March 2001, state prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Ginandjar for alleged corruption that caused state losses of $24.8 million. His arrest was delayed because he was hospitalized for tests on his stomach. He was arrested on 6 April 2001 at a Jakarta hospital and held at the detention center at the Attorney General's Office compound. He denied any wrongdoing and said his arrest was politically motivated and ordered by then-president Abdurrahman Wahid. Ginandjar challenged the arrest warrant and tried to sue the Attorney General's Office for wrongful arrest.

Ginandjar was released after a month. He acknowledged it was difficult to shake off corruption allegations because he was part of the Suharto regime. "Saying that I'm not corrupt is a bit like the saying: 'I'm not beating my wife.' No one ever believes you", he said in 2001.

Ginandjar played a role in encouraging Suharto to resign in May 1998 when he and other ministers refused to sit in the Development Reform Cabinet to be formed by president Suharto. When it became clear that it would be hard for Suharto to form a cabinet, the president chose to stand down in favor of his vice president B. J. Habibie.

Ginandjar has been active in politics since the 1970s when he sat in Suharto's cabinet. He has always called himself a nationalist, due to the influence of his parents who were both National Party of Indonesia (PNI) activists before World War II.

Upon returning to Indonesia on 15 October 1965 in the aftermath of a failed military coup, Ginandjar worked for the military's Supreme Operations Command (KOTI) for one year. In 1967, he served as General Director of Research and Development at the Indonesian Air Force, and from 1968–1971 he was head of the Analysis and Legislation Research Bureau at the Cabinet Secretariat. He is a visiting professor at Waseda University.

Ginandjar attended Kanisius College in Jakarta. His frequent association with students of other nationalities and religious backgrounds fueled his nationalism. After one year of studying at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in West Java, he was awarded a scholarship to Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, where he studied chemical engineering (industrial chemistry) from 1960 to 1965.

Ginandjar Kartasasmita (born 9 April 1941 in Bandung, West Java) is an Indonesian politician. He served a five-year term (2004–2009) as Speaker of Indonesia Regional Representative Council (DPD-RI).