Wearing a sarong to visit PKB, Kaesang: We are the Santri Party of Indonesia

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) Kaesang Pangarep and a group of PSI administrators visited the National Awakening Party (PKB) DPP Office to meet with PKB Chairman Muhaimin Iskandar and his staff.

Arriving at the PKB DPP Office, Kaesang wore a shirt, black cap, and sarong. Other PSI DPP administrators also wore similar clothes. As if they wanted to adapt to PKB, Kaesang joked that PSI was a student party

"Thank you, we from the Indonesian Santri Party, today we all have received the PKB DPP," said Kaesang at the PKB DPP Office, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, August 6.

The son of President Joko Widodo admitted to meeting Cak Imin and the PKB elite to discuss opportunities for coalition cooperation in the 2024 Pilkada. Given that the registration of regional head candidates will begin on 27 August.

Kaesang admitted that PSI and PKB had mapped out the opportunity to form a coalition to support regional head candidates in a number of areas of Java, especially Jakarta and Central Java.

"I hope that we can cooperate, especially in several regional elections. As in Blora, it is in Cilacap, Lamongan. I hope PSI can collaborate again later in Central Java, as well as in DKI," said Kaesang.

Continuing, Cak Imin admitted that he welcomed the invitation to form a coalition with PSI. He said that the regional election desks of the two parties would follow up on mapping the coalition cooperation.

"The points for cooperation will be handled by two parties in the regional elections that handle it," said the Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives.