Debt Issues Of Anies Baswedan According To Netray Monitoring

JAKARTA The issue of Anies Baswedan's debt to Sandiaga Uno amounting to Rp50 billion was a hot topic on Twitter. Netray found 16,094 tweets in his monitoring during the period 1-15 February 2023 using the keyword debt &&anies.

The conversation has been observed since February 4, 2023. One of the initial tweets containing information on Anies Baswedan's debt of IDR 50 billion came from the @MurtadhaOne1 account. Gradually, the conversation became more intense and peaked on February 12, 2023.

Dari yang berhasil dirangkum Netray, terdapat 2.8 juta impressis dalam bentuk reply, retweet, danfavorites. Pertentuan ini secara potensi dapat mencapai 92,3 juta akun Twitter berbahasa Indonesia, tulis Netray dalam laporannya pada 17 Februari 2023.

Overall, the conversation was dominated more by negative sentiment. Netray found 9,908 tweets indexed negative tweets. While tweets with positive sentiment were observed to be quite low, only 1,665 uploads.

The account that received the most impression from Twitter activists was @ch_chotimah2 with a total of 17,612 impressions. @ch_chotimah2 is one of the many accounts that contradicts the issue of Anies' debt.

According to him, the supporters of Anies Baswedan have committed acts of atrocities for attacking, cursing, and demeaning Sandiaga regarding debt issues. In fact, Sandiaga has given a loan, invited Anies to take part in the gubernatorial election, and even resigned as deputy governor.

In the second position with an impression of 15,381 is the @abu_waras account which is indicated as an account supporting Anies Baswedan. @abu_waras in one of his uploads said Anies was a victim of heinous and barbaric slander. The debt was paid off when the Anies-Sandi pair won the 2017 DKI Jakarta gubernatorial election.

Despite being dominated by negative sentiment, the Top Persons list is actually filled with many accounts that tend to support Anies Baswedan. Apart from @abu_waras, accounts @bachrum_achmadi and @Relawanies also appeared.

@bachrum_achmadi menganggap hujatan justru membuat nama Anies Baswedan semakin besar. Sedangkan @Relawanies melihat masalah utang justru menunjukkan Anies Baswedan mem teaching cara berpolitik yang sehat.

The discourse of this kind of attack is increasingly being found ahead of the 2024 General Election and does not only happen to Anies Baswedan. Some time ago a number of figures who were predicted to advance to the 2024 presidential election, such as Ridwan Kamil and Ganjar Pranowo, also received attacks with their respective cases, "wrote Netray closing his report.

The issue related to Anies Baswedan's debt to Sandiaga Uno amounted to Rp50 billion for campaign fees during the 2017 DKI Pilkada was first raised by the Deputy Chairperson of the Golkar Party Erwin Aksa on Akbar Faizal Uncensored's YouTube channel which premiered on February 4, 2023.

In fact, when the issue surfaced, a debt statement was not long ago circulated signed by Anies Baswedan on stamp duty dated March 9, 2017. Whether genuine or not, the letter stated that the debt was not only Rp. 50 billion but there was an additional Rp. 42 billion, so that the total debt reached Rp92 billion.

I admit that I borrowed Rp. 42,000,000,000.00 (fourty-two billion rupiah) from Mr. Sandiaga S. Uno without collateral and without interest ("Land III Fund) on the date as mentioned below for the purpose of fulfilling the 70% obligation of the total costs at the 2017 DKI Pilkada II Campaign (Total cost 60 billion Rupiah) where the Loan III Fund will be handed over by Mr. Sandiaga S. Uno directly to the Campaign Team, fill point 2 in the agreement letter.

However, Anies Baswedan on Merry Riana's YouTube channel, which aired on February 10, 2023, did not deny the debt. Anies did not mention the nominal, but according to him, it is no longer a debt but has become a form of support because he and Sandiaga Uno were successfully elected governor of DKI.

So, the support that asks to be recorded as debt. This is support for the campaign, for change, for improvement. If this is successful, then it is recorded as support. If we don't succeed then it becomes a debt that must be returned. So that's support, now who guarantees Pak Sandi. So the money is not from Pak Sandi," said Anies.

"There is a third party who supports it. Then I stated, there is a letter, a debt statement, I signed it. And in the letter it was stated, if the Pilkada loses then I promise that Pak Sandiaga Uno and I promise to return it, which signed me. If I win the Pilkada, then this is declared not a debt. That's what happened. That's why once the Pilkada is finished, win, finish," he added.