Memories Of The 2019 Election: PSI Is Nicknamed The One Koma Party For Failing To Enter Parliament

JAKARTA - rigidity is often present in political contestation in Indonesia. The entire party with the ideology of nationalist, religious, and Pancasilaist relies on veteran figures. They are like sound printing machines. This condition makes youth representation on the political stage a dream in broad daylight.

Everything changed when the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) was present. PSI is ready to represent young people to win the 2019 election. Instead of winning, PSI failed completely. This failure made PSI nicknamed the One Koma Party.

Politics is a noble task to realize happiness for everyone. That is PSI's view which was born after the 2014 election summary. Famous presenter Grace Natalie and Muhammadiyah activist Raja Juli Antoni are behind it.

Both want political party reforms to pay more attention to the lives of the Indonesian people. The newcomer party tried to pave the way for efforts to advance young people to the political stage.

Something that is rarely raised by other parties. The breakthrough is being carried out. PSI has also started to heat up its political machines to look at the 2019 elections. PSI tries to invite young people who excel throughout the archipelago to participate as cadres.

They are grateful that they will be able to represent the interests of PSI and young people in the Senayan parliament arena. This narrative made PSI aggressively select Legislative candidates in a transparent and open way. Those who were selected were then broadcast via PSI's social media.

The general assembly is able to find out the track record of prospective people's representatives from PSI. Even PSI tries to prioritize women's representation as legislative candidates. In fact, female candidates reached 45 percent, while men were 65 percent. A thing that will not be found in other political parties.

The moment you have been waiting for has arrived. PSI was successfully registered as one of the participants in the 2019 General Election. PSI received serial number 11. PSI is confident that they can penetrate the parliamentary threshold, which is four percent of the vote.

"PSI is a political party that newcomers to this political year, carrying the theme of the movement of young people, this is a party with a millennial platform. Led by famous presenters, Grace Natalie and Secretary General of Muhammadiyah Activist, King Juli Antoni. Although, in the political view of PSI, it does not appear to be other than well-established parties that are much more full of Indonesian political salt acid", said Dedi Kurnia Syah Putra in the book Political Social Responsibility (2018).

It could be PSI's confidence is rising. They believe that all Indonesian people will choose PSI. In fact, it is far from wild. The populist campaign with frills representing young people does not study in the political contestation of the 2019 Election.

Instead of being able to penetrate the parliamentary threshold of four percent of the vote, PSI in the official KPU results was only able to get 1.89 percent of the vote. The vote acquisition made PSI's desire to enter parliament a dream in broad daylight.

PSI then admitted to losing and respecting the democratic process in the 2019 Election. PSI's defeat became a joke for other politicians. Many think PSI from the start had a big mouth. PSI considers the existing party to be incompatible with the tastes of the times.

Hanum Rais also responded to PSI's defeat. The daughter of a politician as well as a reform figure, Amien Rais, was like mocking PSI by calling the youth party Nasakom on April 24, 2019. The Nasakom Hanum meant was not referring to the ideology of Nasakom nationalist, religious, communist - Bung Karno's style.

The Nasakom in question is the one-coma fate party. The satire made an impression on PSI cadres. In fact, the general public then began to call PSI the One-Coma Party which refers to the votes won in the 2019 election.

The satire of the Partai Satu Koma then ignited in public spaces to social media. PSI cadres began to be furious with this nickname. Recently, PSI's defeat in the 2024 election seemed to form the same pattern. PSI's vote only reached 2.8 percent. Could it be the nickname of Partai Satu Koma then change to Partai Dua Koma? Wallahualam.

'Mbak can insult us no matter what. But one important thing: we will always maintain the trust of the three million Indonesian people by continuing to hold on to our idealism. We will never make public stupid with lies. It's better to lose with integrity than to lie. That's an attitude, "reply PSI cadres, Tsamara Amany in his tweet on Twitter, April 24, 2019.