Bidani UU Warganegaraan, Ganjar Remove Discriminasi Warga Descendants

BANDUNG - President Ganjar Pranowo's candidate has a role in eliminating discrimination against minority citizens or Chinese descent. Ganjar while serving as a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives gave birth to Law No. 12 of 2006 concerning Citizenship.

At that time, citizenship rules were still discriminating minority citizens. Law No.62 of 1958 distinguishes Indonesian citizens and descendants.

Ganjar, who passed the 2004 Legislative Election, expressed this anxiety. Together with his friends in the DPR at that time, he dressed the birth of Law No. 12 of 2006 concerning Citizenship.

At that time, the emergence of this law was greeted with joy. Because this law carries the principle of equality, there is no discrimination, upholding human rights, gender equality, and equal rights between men and women. There is no longer separation between Indonesian citizens and descendants. There are only Indonesian citizens and foreign nationals.

The law also strengthens the status of children in three vulnerable groups. Namely, children from legal mixed marriages of foreign and Indonesian parents, children outside of the legal marriage of foreign and Indonesian parents, as well as the confirmation of the status of Indonesian citizens, children born in Indonesia, even though their parents' status is unknown or dead.

"This law confirms that children with vulnerable status, for example, these three examples will be recognized, protected, and treated as Indonesian citizens," said Ganjar.

The story of the birth of the Citizenship Law was conveyed by Ganjar at the Public Lecture on the Role of Youth in the Future of Indonesian Politics at Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, Wednesday, October 11.

Ganjar told it as an example of how young people can get involved in the system to change people's social conditions for the better.

"There are two ways to get involved, in a system like mine by entering the DPR and producing the law or outside the system by being a government supervisor," he said.

Both according to Ganjar are good. As long as it is carried out seriously, it is committed to the nation and state as well as integrity and partiality to the interests of the people.

The public lecture was attended by more than a thousand students. They seemed enthusiastic about listening to Ganjar's ideas for almost two hours. The committee initially invited three presidential candidates, namely Anies Baswedan, Ganjar Pranowo, and Prabowo Subianto. However, only Ganjar fulfilled the invitation.