Ahok Meets Gibran Considered A Signal For PDIP Task Force In Pilres 2024
JAKARTA - The meeting of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) with Solo Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka is said to be inseparable from the political charge.
Ahok's arrival is mentioned as a signal of Gibran's potential to become a candidate for governor of DKI Jakarta in the upcoming 2024 regional elections.
"It could be that we see a lot of people coming to Gibran. The party chairman met and wanted to support Gibran in DKI Jakarta. That's something that's not a sudden statement, there must have been a plan before. Or it is testing on the water to see the response of the community," Al Azhar University Indonesia political observer Ujang Komarudin told VOI on Thursday, April 8.
According to Ujang, PDIP as a refugee parliament early on has begun to divide the task to its cadres who become regional heads. Namely, Ganjar Pranowo remained in Central Java while Gibran Rakabuming was withdrawn to DKI Jakarta.
"This is the task of PDIP in order to win in Central Java, win also in DKI. So," said the Executive Director of Indonesia Political Review.
While contesting the presidential election, Megawati according to him may have prepared another capres figure in place of Joko Widodo. For example, Puan Maharani.
"It could be that the PDIP presidential election has another hero. It could be Puan then depends later on the electability of Puan and Ganjar, who is higher. PDIP has its own calculations," he said.