Claims Not To Violate Ethics, TKN Disbursed The Rules Allowing The President To Take Sides And Participate In Campaigns
JAKARTA - The Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team (TKN) agreed with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi)'s statement that the president may campaign and side with one of the candidate pairs (paslon) in the 2024 presidential election contestation.
TKN emphasized that no ethics and rules were violated by the president if he wanted to campaign for certain candidate pairs. "Constitutionally, legally and ethically this is indeed permissible," said Deputy Chairperson of TKN Prabowo-Gibran, Habiburokhman during a press conference at the TKN Media Center, Sriwijaya I Street, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, Wednesday, January 24. Habiburokhman said that every citizen has human rights as regulated in Law on Human Rights article 23 to vote and have political beliefs. The constitution, he said, also regulates that the president may run for a second time. "If you run for yourself, you can do it for the second time, let alone campaign for a particular candidate," said Habiburokhman.