Followed By Gun Romli, These 2 Cadres Leave PSI Because They Have 'Played With Their Eyes' With Prabowo Subianto

PSI DPP General Chair Giring Ganesha (left) welcomes the arrival of Gerindra Party Chair Prabowo Subianto (center) at the PSI/DOK DPP OFFICE BETWEEN

JAKARTA - The legislative candidate (caleg) from the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) resigned as a cadre and irregular after the visit of Gerindra Chairman Prabowo Subianto to the PSI DPP Office last Wednesday. The legislators are Dwi Kundoyo and Estugraha who have resigned as PSI candidates for the DKI Jakarta DPRD and Bogor City. "I at the same time declared my resignation as a legislative candidate and left PSI, from PSI membership,” Dwi said in a press statement in Jakarta, Antara, Monday, August 7. They assess that their party has turned a blind eye and is starting to get close to the future presidential candidate (candidate) Gerindra Prabowo Subianto. In fact, he continued, his party was initially interested in fighting with PSI, because the political party was based on the results of the People's Rembuk which was held in October 2022 to determine the candidate for PDI-P presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo as a presidential candidate in 2024. However, continued Dwi, he has not yet fulfilled the mandate of the organization, PSI is considered to have flirted with Prabowo Subianto. "P Prabowo's presence at the PSI DPP, which was warmly welcomed for me, has hurt the enthusiasm and views of my struggle so far,” said the founder and first presidium of the FKSMJ (Student Senate Communication Forum throughout Jakarta) and activists of the Islamic Student Association (HMI) at the end of the '90s. Meanwhile, Dwi is now the Secretary General (Sekjen) of GanjarianATAN, while Egha is the Deputy General Chair of the organization. Earlier, on Saturday, former Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) politician Mohamad Guntur Romli revealed that he had left the party and stated that he wanted to focus on serving as General Chair of Ganjarian “Yes, that's right (exmily exiting PSI as of today). I focus on being the General Chair of Ganjarian▁kesepakatani,” said Guntur confirmed by ANTARA via text message from Jakarta, Friday. Meanwhile, in his press release, Guntur said the reason he left was because of the signal of closeness between PSI and the prospective presidential candidate from the Gerindra Party Prabowo Subianto. Guntur admitted that he had never been informed or given an explanation by the PSI management regarding Prabowo's presence at the PSI DPP. He said he could only read and watch in the mass media that Prabowo was seen starting to have closeness to PSI. "The reason I finally decided to leave PSI was Prabowo's presence at the PSI DPP and the PSI coalition 'tondo-tondo' with Prabowo without opening the discussion and debate room first because it was related to the values and principles that we have fought for together,” he said. The decision to leave, said Guntur, was a tough thing because of the relationship that had been established between him and other PSI cadres. He also said that PSI is his political house. Guntur explained that he was not carrying out hate politics against Prabowo. He admitted that he respected the General Chair of the Gerindra Party as a political figure as well as the Minister of Defense in the government cabinet of President Joko Widodo.

Furthermore, Guntur believes Ganjar Pranowo deserves to be Joko Widodo's successor. According to him, Ganjar has an ideological and leadership style in common with the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia.