Hasto Calls Rapimnas Political Political Parties Saying Truth, Not Spreading Fitnah To Jokowi

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the PDI-P DPP Hasto Kristiyanto said a national leadership meeting (rapimnas) of a political party should convey the politics of truth.

Hasto Kristiyanto said this when responding to the statement by the Chairman of the Democratic Party High Council as well as the sixth president of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) who accused the Joko Widodo (Jokowi) government of cheating in the 2024 election.

SBY conveyed this to the Rapimnas of the Democratic Party at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Friday.

"The meeting of a party's national leadership should convey the politics of truth, not slander politics, not politics with the voices alleging that there are irregularities, and crime. This is what we do not accept because it is directly accused of the government of Mr. Jokowi," said Hasto, quoted from ANTARA, Sunday, September 18.

If SBY did hear and know the signs of an dishonest 2024 General Election, Hasto said, he should have conveyed this through a legal process.

"If his statesmanship is put forward, of course what he hears and knows can be conveyed to the KPU as a neutral election organizer, who also in his election, the Democratic Party also expressed its voice," he said.

SBY, said Hasto, also accused that it was said that there would be only two pairs of candidates in the 2024 presidential election.

In fact, he continued, all political observers and General Chairperson of NasDem Surya Paloh conveyed that there were at least three or four candidates for the 2024 election analysis.

"And then suddenly Mr. SBY has judged that it seems that President Jokowi has made arrangements for two pairs of candidates," he said.

Hasto added that the matter of submitting presidential and vice presidential candidates is regulated in a law based on the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

Currently, the law regulates the existence of a nomination threshold (presidential threshold), which is 25 percent of vote achievements in elections or a combination of political parties that won 20 percent of seats in parliament.

"And this is part of the provisions that are mutually agreed upon, including during Pak SBY's leadership," he said.

The presidential threshold, said Hasto, was built to build an effective government.

The pair of elected presidential/vice presidential candidates not only have a very strong electoral base from the people, but also a seat support base in parliament that allows the elected government to make objective decisions.

"Because of the minimum support of 20 percent of seats in the DPR," said Hasto.

He then gave an example when the first period of President Jokowi's administration with Vice President Jusuf Kalla took 1.5 years to consolidate the government. At that time there was a mobilization of power in parliament by political parties that were not supporters of Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla.

"This is of course an accident in democracy, even this is a tsunami in democracy," he said.

Therefore, said Hasto, SBY's statement showed excessive concern without the fact that it was as if the candidate pairs running for the 2024 presidential election would be regulated and there was a scenario as if the opposition could not nominate themselves.

"We have to look at the existing constitutional mechanism that the presidential threshold provisions are constitutionally legal provisions and must not be contested," he said.

Hasto regretted SBY's statement which he said accused all things without being based on facts.

According to him, what SBY said was far from the nature of a statesman when he made accusations that the Jokowi government was batil.

He said that in a situation in the face of a situation that was not easy due to global pressure, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was not over, national leaders should convey positive things.

"The accusation against President Jokowi's government with words is batel, with evil words, it is also far from Pak SBY's statesmanship, far from how this politics requires stability," said Hasto.