 Allegations that he may have wrongfully granted land concessions involving previously protected high conservation value land to palm oil companies also surfaced before the campaign.In 2017, he was reelected as the Governor of Aceh, with Nova Iriansyah as his partner.In 2018, the former Free Aceh Movement ( (GAM) leader was the second Aceh governor implicated in a corruption case after Abdullah Puteh, who was sentenced to 10 years for graft surrounding the procurement of an MI-2 Rostov helicopter worth US$872,500.