Munafri worked for his father-in-law for some time, including as CEO for several of the companies within the group. He also served as chairman of South Sulawesi's young entrepreneurs association between 2007 and 2010. At that time, he was working at Corporate Relations in Bosowa. After becoming the last-ranked team in the league following the first four matches in his first season, Munafri fired the club manager
Luciano Leandro and brought in
Robert Alberts. In addition, nine foreign players were also removed. PSM finished sixth that season.
Elections During the
2018 Indonesian local elections, Munafri registered to run as mayor of
Makassar, the capital and largest city of South Sulawesi. Being a member of
Golkar, he was supported by 10 political parties representing 43 of the 50 seats in Makassar's city council. His opponent was incumbent mayor
Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto. However, Pomanto was disqualified by the city's
electoral commission, citing procedural flaws. This resulted in Munafri running as a single candidate, but he was still required to win over half of the votes to be elected as a
none of the above option was available. In the election itself, Munafri secured 264,245 votes, while 300,795 voted for the empty ballot. While Munafri brought the case to the
Constitutional Court, the court denied his case and reiterated the electoral commission's ruling, forcing a repeat election to be held in 2020 and an appointee to act as mayor. Munafri's loss marked the first ever victory for the
none of the above option in elections for Indonesian regional leaders. In his second run in 2020, Arifuddin again faced Pomanto alongside two other tickets and lost, winning 34.7% of votes to Pomanto's 41.3%. Arifuddin successfully ran for a seat in the
South Sulawesi Regional House of Representatives in the
2024 election, winning 29,802 votes.
Continued politics He became the chairman of Golkar's Makassar branch in March 2021. In November 2021, he was appointed
honorary consul of
Croatia in Makassar. ==References==