Erwan Kurtubi (9 June 195011 February 2023) was an Indonesian civil servant and politician who was the Regent of Pandeglang from 2009 until 2010 and from 2011 until 2016. Early life, education, and career Kurtubi was born in Pandeglang, Banten (then a part of West Java), on 9 June 1950. His family migrated to Tanjungkarang when Kurtubi was young. Kurtubi finished his primary and secondary education there, from elementary school in 1964 to high school in 1970. He then returned to West Java and continued his studies at the Academy of Home Governance (Akademi Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri, APDN). He graduated from APDN in 1977 and attended a brief course for APDN alumni before being sent to work as a civil servant at the Pandeglang regional government's office. Less than a year later, he was reassigned to the Cimanggu subdistrict as a municipal policeman (mantri polisi pamongpraja). In 1982, Kurtubi was moved from Cimanggu to the Mandalawangi subdistrict—a subdivision of the Pandeglang regency—and became the acting head of the subdistrict for a few months. After that, he was transferred to the Pandeglang Regional Planning Agency and served as the head of the physical bureau until 1984. During this period, Kurtubi pursued further studies at the Indonesian Institute of Governance Sciences and obtained a doctorandus in 1985. He later studied management at the Ganesha Institute of Economics and obtained a master's degree in management in 2000. From 24 September 1986 until 26 March 1999, Kurtubi respectively became the head of the Saketi, Menes, and the suburban Pandeglang subdistrict. He was then appointed by the regent of Pandeglang, Yitno, as the head of the regency's traffic agency. Yitno was replaced by Dimyati Natakusumah in 2000, and Natakusumah moved him to the post of the head of the regency's regional income agency and the cooperatives agency. Natakusumah appointed Kurtubi into the post of regional secretary, the highest-ranked bureaucratic office in the regional government. He left the post in 2004 and retired from civil service on 1 July 2006. Deputy Regent and Regent of Pandeglang After leaving his post of regional secretary, Kurtubi was chosen by Natakusumah as his running mate for the 2005 Pandeglang regent elections. The pair was supported by United Development Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. On one occasion, the local ulema council issued a fatwa for Muslims in Pandeglang to vote for the pair, prompting backlash from members