Jokowi Denies Prabowo's Issue Of Cekik Wamen During A Meeting At The Palace

President Jokowi with Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto in Solo (doc Setneg)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) denied any information about Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto who was said to have slapped and strangled one of the deputy ministers (wamen) during a cabinet meeting agenda at the State Palace, Jakarta. Jokowi emphasized that there was no such event. "As far as I know there is no such event, the period is strange," Jokowi said while reviewing Jatinegara Market, East Jakarta, Tuesday, September 19. According to Jokowi, such information often occurs ahead of the political year. He asked the public to be careful in reading the news.. "Indeed, the year of politics has a lot of such news. Please check the truth, don't accept raw news every time," said Jokowi. Previously, Prabowo's narrative slapped and strangled the deputy minister at a meeting was delivered by someone named Alifurrahman from Seword TV. It is said, Prabowo slapped and strangled a deputy minister during a cabinet meeting. The act was also said to have traumatized the deputy minister and other ministers who participated in the meeting felt uncomfortable. The ministers who attended the meeting were said to have intervened.

The Gerindra Party DPP itself has denied this issue. The daily chairman of the Gerindra Party, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, assessed that the emergence of Prabowo's issue of slapping and strangling the deputy minister was suspected of covering up the information of the Democratic Party to officially support Prabowo Subianto as a candidate for presidential election in the 2024 presidential election. "It should have been a matter of buying a used plane, even though there was nothing from the state budget," said Dasco at the DPR building, parliament complex, Senayan yesterday.