Prabowo Considered Salah Kaprah To Interpret Defense Issues As A Secretity In The Debate Of Presidential Candidates

JAKARTA - Presidential Candidate Prabowo Subianto is considered to have misunderstood the issue of defense cannot be exposed in a secret presidential candidate debate.

Political observer from the University of Indonesia (UI) Cecep Hidayat said the presidential candidate's debate was about strategic issues, not details of defense/security patterns.

"Bat is there an issue of debate about defense, there are actually strategic issues, although there is no need to know the details, but how then the presidential candidate can have the capability to create a strategic basis based on data so that in the future he will become a guide guide for his assistants, ministers," said Cecep, Monday, January 8.

There is something called Cecep in the secret category of the state or data that can be disclosed to the public in the context of exposure to the work programs of the presidential candidates.

Ika refers to Law Number 14 of 2008 concerning Public Information Disclosure, Cecep said there are some public information that is excluded and is confidential, one of which is information that could endanger the defense of state security.

"So what is related is mentioned in the law, for example regarding strategy, intelligence, operations, tactics, techniques and security and security systems of the country, that's what can't be," said Cecep.

Including documents in the form of sums, compositions, dispositions, dislocations on the strength and capabilities of national defense, images and data of military bases, state media systems and estimates of military and defense capabilities.

"Well, it can be conveyed to the public. From last night's data, the debate was actually outside of that, yes, Law Number 14 of 2008 is a state secret, it should not be disclosed," said Cecep.

In a presidential candidate debate, Sunday, January 7, Prabowo criticized Anies about the transparency of state data and security.

"Detention is sacred and earlier, if I'm not mistaken, there was a candidate who said that for defense there is no secret, I think this is very funny," Prabowo said at a debate press conference.

Prabowo also said that it is inappropriate for a leader, because of defense issues, security is full of secret things.