Insinuation Of The United Indonesia Coalition, Fahri Hamzah: The Coalition Must Finally Be Stopped In This Republic

JAKARTA - The Golkar Party, the National Mandate Party (PAN), and the United Development Party (PPP) plan to build a United Indonesia coalition for the 2024 General Election.

However, the formation of this coalition actually received satire from the Deputy Chairperson of the Gelora Party, Fahri Hamzah. He called the Coalition initiated by Airlangga Hartarto, Zulkifli Hasan, and Suharso Monoarfa the 'Ujug-ujug Coalition'.

According to him, the impromptu coalition must be stopped because it is not healthy for the democratic system in Indonesia.

"'The ultimate coalition must be stopped in this republic! It is not healthy for our presidentialism to allow a final coalition, there is no end, there is no beginning, how it started, that's how it ends," said Fahri, Friday, May 13.

According to Fahri, the coalition is not known in the presidential system. According to him, the constitution only mentions the bearers of political parties and coalitions of political parties.

"The term coalition is not known in presidentialism. Coalition is the terminology in parliamentarism. That's why it is difficult to find out where the coalition is in our system. In the Constitution it only mentions the bearer of political parties and coalitions of political parties," explained Fahri.

In fact, continued Fahri, the original purpose of calling the nominee a presidential candidate a 'political party and coalition of political parties' was because the constitution anticipates that one pair of candidates will be supported by more than one political party. Therefore, any political party may nominate its candidate.

"Because it is the candidate who will clearly explain what the ideology and ideas of the political party are if they lead nationally their cadres," he said.

Therefore, Fahri considered that each party has a spokesperson and presidential candidate who can convey messages to the public about the identity of the party.

Fahri also emphasized that the Gelora Party did not agree with the material coalition, but prioritized the party's concept and ideology through its presidential candidate.

"We don't agree that politics will turn into a material coalition, but we want to strengthen the identity of presidentialism by prioritizing the concepts and ideologies of the party represented and the spokesperson explicitly by the president or his presidential candidate," he said.

It is known that the Golkar Party, PAN and PPP agreed to build a coalition ahead of the 2024 general election after the general chairman of the three parties held a meeting in Menteng, Jakarta on Thursday, May 12, evening.

The United Three Coalition had sparked, the name of the coalition of Golkar, PAN and PPP is now known as the United Indonesia Coalition.

The chairman of the Golkar Party DPP, Ace Hasan Syadzily, explained that the United Indonesia Coalition was taken from the combination of the symbols of Golkar, PAN and PPP.

"Want the symbol of Golkar, SuryA (Matahari) the symbol of PAN, and BaiTUllah (Kakbah) the symbol of PPP," said Ace in Jakarta, Friday, May 13.

According to him, with the same political experience the three parties agreed to build a United Indonesia Coalition.

"With their party vision and various political experiences, all of them agreed to unite themselves to build a coalition called the United Indonesia Coalition," said Ace.