List of governors of Aceh

Below is a list of governors of Aceh, one of the provinces of Indonesia, from Indonesian independence to the present day.

Coat of arms of Aceh

Flag of Aceh (non-civil)

Incumbent governor, Muzakir Manaf

List of governors

• = Acting governor, in place until a full governor was formerly appointed

#	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Period	Note	Vice Governor
1		Teuku Nyak Arif	3 October 1945	1946	1	[Note 1]
2		Teuku Daud Syah	1946	1947	2
3		Teungku Daud Beureu'eh	1947	1950	3
			1950	1951	4
4		B. M. Danubroto (Coordinator Resident)	1951	1953	5
5		Teuku Sulaiman Daud (Government Coordinator)	Mei 1953	September 1953	6
—		Abdul Wahab	1953	1954
6		Abdul Razak	1954	1956	7
7		Ali Hasjmy	1957	1959	8
			1959	1964	9	[Note 2]
8		Nyak Adam Kamil	10 April 1964	30 August 1966	10
9		Hasby Wahidi	30 August 1967	15 May 1968	11	[1]
10		Abdullah Muzakir Walad	15 May 1968	27 June 1973	12
			27 June 1973	27 August 1978	13
11		Abdul Madjid Ibrahim	27 August 1978	15 March 1981	14
—		Eddy Sabara	15 March 1981	27 August 1981
12		Hadi Thayeb	27 August 1981	27 August 1986	15
13		Ibrahim Hassan	27 August 1986	25 May 1993	16	[2]
14		Syamsudin Mahmud	26 May 1993	26 May 1998	17		Zainuddin AG
			26 May 1998	21 June 2000	18	[Note 3] [3][4][5]
—		Ramli Ridwan (Acting)	21 June 2000	25 November 2000
15		Abdullah Puteh	25 November 2000	19 July 2004	19	[Note 4] [Note 5] [6][7]	Azwar Abubakar
—		Azwar Abubakar (Acting)	19 July 2004	30 December 2005		[Note 6]	—
—		Mustafa Abubakar (Daily Acting)	30 December 2005	8 February 2007	—
16		Irwandi Yusuf	8 February 2007	8 February 2012	20	[Note 7]	Muhammad Nazar
—		Tarmizi Abdul Karim (Acting)	8 February 2012	25 June 2012	—		—
17		Zaini Abdullah	25 June 2012	25 June 2017	21	[8]	Muzakir Manaf
—		Soedarmo (Acting)	28 October 2016	11 February 2017	—	[Note 8] [9]	—
—		Dermawan (Daily Acting)	25 June 2017	5 July 2017		[Note 9]
(16)		Irwandi Yusuf	5 July 2017	5 July 2018	22	[10]	Nova Iriansyah
—		Nova Iriansyah	5 July 2018	5 November 2020		[11]	—
18			5 November 2020	5 July 2022		[12]
—		Achmad Marzuki (acting)	6 July 2022	22 August 2024	—	[Note 10] [13]	—
		Safrizal Zakaria Ali (acting)	22 August 2024	12 February 2025
19		Muzakir Manaf	12 February 2025	Present

Note

1. As Resident of Aceh, under the Governor of Sumatra
2. In 1959, named "Governor of the Special Region of Aceh"
3. In June 2000, Syamsudin Mahmud was appointed Deputy Head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas)
4. In 2001 it was named "Governor of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam"
5. Pada tahun 2004, Abdullah Puteh dinonaktifkan dari jabatannya karena divonis melakukan tindak pidana korupsi
6. Replacing the position of Abdullah Puteh who was deactivated
7. In 2009, named 'Governor of Aceh'
8. Menggantikan sementara Gubernur dan Wagub petahana yang berkampanye di Pilgub 2017
9. Replace the Governor and Vice Governor of 2012-2017 term of office whose term has expired.
10. Replace the Governor Presidential Decree of the Republic of Indonesia Number 70/P/2022 concerning the Ratification of the Dismissal of the Governor of Aceh for the remainder of the 2017-2022 term of office and the Appointment of the Acting Governor of Aceh.