17 Notable alumni of Diponegoro University

Asip Kholbihi is an Indonesian politician who served as regent of Pekalongan Regency, Central Java from 2016 to 2021. He was elected as regent in 2015.

Ali Mufiz is an Indonesian academician and politician who served as the governor of Central Java between September 2007 and August 2008. Prior to becoming governor, he had served for four years as vice governor under Mardiyanto between 2003 and 2007.

Gandi Sulistiyanto Soeherman is a businessperson, an Indonesian diplomat, and former Managing Director of Sinar Mas Group. He served as the Indonesian Ambassador to South Korea from 2021 to 2023.

Bonnie Triyana is an Indonesian historian, politician, and museum curator. He founded the Indonesian-language history magazine Historia and is its director and editor-in-chief.

Ahmad Basarah is an Indonesian politician and currently member of the People's Representative Council.

Abdul Kadir Karding is an Indonesian politician of the National Awakening Party serving as Minister of Migrant Workers Protection since 2024. From 2009 to 2024, he was a member of the House of Representatives.

Hadi Prabowo, better known by his initials HP is an Indonesian politician and government employee, who is serving as the current Chancellor of the Institute for Home Affairs since 2020. Previously, he served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Home Affairs. In the 2013 Central Java gubernatorial election, Hadi ran as a candidate for governor who was promoted by...

Taufik Kurniawan was an Indonesian politician. A member of the National Mandate Party, he served as a deputy speaker of the People's Representative Council from 2010 to 2019.

Hendarman Supandji is an Indonesian lawyer and politician from Klaten, Central Java, and a former Attorney General of Indonesia.

Susi Pudjiastuti is an Indonesian entrepreneur who served as the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia under President Joko Widodo's 2014–2019 Working Cabinet. She is also the owner of PT ASI Pudjiastuti Marine Product, a seafood export company, and PT ASI Pudjiastuti Aviation, which operates Susi Air charter airline.

Robert Budi Hartono is an Indonesian tobacco billionaire with a net worth of US$25.3 billion as of September 2023. He owns and runs the privately held Djarum, the world's third-largest maker of clove cigarettes. Djarum has reportedly recently grabbed shares from the number two cigarette firm, Sampoerna. Budi Hartono also has a stake with his brother, Michael Bambang Hartono in...

Tjahjo Kumolo was an Indonesian politician. He served as Minister of Home Affairs in the Working Cabinet (2014–2019), and Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet from 2019 until his death, both under President Joko Widodo.

Sanitiar Burhanuddin is the present Attorney General of Indonesia, serving since October 2019 in the cabinet of President Joko Widodo. He was previously deputy attorney general for civil and state administrative cases.

Hendrar Prihadi, sometimes nicknamed Hendi, is an Indonesia politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Chairman of the Government Goods/Services Procurement Policy Institute of the Republic of Indonesia (LKPP) since 10 October 2022, and Mayor of Semarang for the period 2013–2022, following his predecessor's arrest over a corruption charge, Soemarmo Hadi Saputro. He resigned the mayoralty in November...

Mohamad Nasir is an Indonesian politician and professor. He served as Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education in the Working Cabinet between 2014 and 2019. He was appointed by President Joko Widodo on 27 October 2014, replacing Gusti Muhammad Hatta. He was rector-elect of Diponegoro University in Indonesia and was supposed to be sworn in on 18 December 2014.

Arief Hidayat was the fifth Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. Previously, he was a professor of law at his alma mater, Diponegoro University.