Jokowi Raises Three Fingers When Distributing IDR 300 Thousand BLT Migor To Merchants, Roy Suryo: Hopefully That Means Not 3 Periods Yes

JAKARTA - The former Minister of Youth and Sports, Roy Suryo Democrat, observed the actions of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) who raised three fingers while giving direct cash assistance (BLT) of cooking oil amounting to Rp. 300,000 in Jambi City, yesterday. Jokowi's actions were recorded in a video shared by Roy.

Roy quipped Jokowi who raised three fingers as if conveying the discourse of extending the presidential term to three terms. The discourse of the president for the last three terms has been widely discussed following the political elite and Jokowi's ministers who continue to speak publicly about it.

"There was something interesting during the visit to Jambi's Angso Duo Market this afternoon. Apart from distributing the BLT-Migor themselves (which he said, "people are really happy to hold Rp. 300 thousand ..." in yesterday's speech). His right finger held up THREE FINGERS. Hopefully it's not about PERIOD, yes. AMBYAR," said Roy via his Twitter account, @KRMTRoySuryo, Friday, April 8.

There was something interesting during the visit to Jambi's Angso Duo Market this afternoon, apart from distributing the BLT-Migor himself (which he said "...People are really happy to hold 300 thousand in cash..." in yesterday's speech), his right finger raised THREE FINGERS Hopefully that doesn't mean it about the PERIOD AMBYAR https://t.co/1gbvtIcOUD pic.twitter.com/vVvc2LuG42

— KRMT Roy Suryo (@KRMTRoySuryo2) April 7, 2022

Jokowi distributed cooking oil BLT of Rp. 300,000 at the Angso Duo Baru People's Market, Jambi City, Thursday, April 7. Jokowi hopes that BLT can help ease the burden on people who are struggling.

"This morning I came to the Angso Duo Market in Jambi City, Jambi Province, in order to provide BLT for Cooking Oil of Rp. 300,000 which we hope can alleviate, subsidize the community, especially street vendors who sell fried foods," Jokowi said in a broadcast. press Bureau of the Press, and the Media Secretariat of the President.

Jokowi plans to provide similar assistance in addition to Jambi. Jokowi also asked that the assistance could be distributed to the recipient communities before Eid 2022.

"We have given it earlier and we hope that it will not only be here, later in all provinces in the country, cooking oil BLT can be distributed immediately. I have asked for it to be completed before Lebaran, a week before Lebaran," he said.

Along with the provision of cooking oil BLT, Jokowi also provided a Working Capital Assistance (BMK) of IDR 1.2 million. To the recipient, the head of state conveyed that the BMK could be used as additional business capital.

During his working visit to Jambi, Jokowi also released seven containers of areca nut commodities. Jokowi said that areca nut is an export commodity that is needed by Thailand, Iran, India, China and Pakistan.

Jokowi explained that as many as seven containers of areca nut weighing 126 tons have an economic value of IDR 4,069 billion.

"Earlier I had ordered the Minister of Agriculture to prepare superior varieties, good ones, which have good quality seeds and we hope we can export them in even larger quantities," he said.