IDHAM Arsyad is no stranger to residents of Pasir Peuteuy village in Bogor, West Java. "We know him as Bang Bogel," said Wowo Sukarman, a farmer and public transport driver from the village.

Long before he campaigned in the area to run for the legislature from the National Awakening Party (PKB), Idham, 40, was already part of Nanggung village, although he is originally from Polewali Mandar in West Sulawesi. But since 2005 he has been helping farme