Who Is Rudi Susanto Who Becomes The Komdigi Special Staff? Called Buzzer With The @kurawa Account

YOGYAKARTA - The appointment of a number of special staff of the Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) has become the talk of many people because there is the name Rudi Sutanto. The figure of Rudi Susanto is associated with the owner of an X account named Rudi Valinka or @kunawa, known as buzzer. So who is Rudi Susanto?

Rudi Valinka has been known as a buzzer who is active on social media. He often made negative tweets about Jokowi's political opponents such as when competing with Prabowo Subianto in the 2014 and 2019 elections. Rudi is also known to be a supporter of Ahok when he ran as a Cagub DKI Jakarta against Anies Baswedan.

Because of this, the appointment of Rudi Susanto as a special staff of Komdigi also reaped many responses from the community.

Rudi Sutanto, also known as Rudi Valinka, has more than 454,000 followers on social media platform X. His account often reaps controversy and has been involved in feuds with the mass media.

In 2020, Rudi accused Anies Baswedan of disbursing funds to a number of media such as compass.com, coverage of 6.com, coils, and seconds.com for imaging purposes. These allegations were immediately denied by various parties from the media mentioned.

Rudi is also known to have criticized President Prabowo before forming a coalition with President Jokowi. In early 2019, he referred to Prabowo as "President of Honoris Causa" for his persistence in running for head of state repeatedly.

Rudi was previously known as the author of the book A Man Called #Ahok. His Twitter account, @kunawa, often lures pros and cons through uploaded tweets. Much of the material that Rudi discussed through his account can be found easily in the timeline or through Google in the form of a chirpstory.

At first, the @warawa account was anonymous, so the identity behind it was not known to the public. However, around 2015, Rudi revealed his identity by displaying the name "Rudi Valinka #HOKI" and his personal photo.

His experience as an internal auditor in several large companies for 13 years brought him into interaction with Jokowi and Ahok during the 2012 gubernatorial election. During that period, the @warawa account began to actively voice support for the Jokowi-Ahok pair. This is considered a starting moment of terms such as buzzers and trolling in a political context.

The presence of the @warawa account attracted more attention during the 2017 DKI Jakarta gubernatorial election, especially among Ahok supporters. Rudi stated that his defense of Ahok was purely based on his appreciation for Ahok's performance in Jakarta, which he said was very good.

"I have to dare to appear, because (in fact) there are limitations too. I do business or something, it's not good to see with people. For this time I have to for the sake of the future," said Rudi in 2017.

The Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs, Meutya Hafid, responded to Rudi Susanto's inauguration as a Special Staff for Communication Strategic Affairs. Meutya stated that she did not know whether Rudi Susanto was the figure known as Rudi Valinka or not.

"[Rudi Susanto is Rusi Valinka] I don't know. Rudi Susanto, who I know, Rudi Susanto. So I don't want to speculate about who Rudi Susanto, the CV we received was also a communication strategy and also colored this ministry," said Meutya at the State Palace, Central Jakarta, Monday (13/1).

Meutya explained that the reason for Rudi Susanto's appointment as a special staff was because of his expertise in the field of communication. However, when asked further, Meutya reiterated that she did not know whether Rudi Susanto was a figure known as Rudi Valinka or not.

"I don't know, mas, I don't really play Twitter either," he said.

That's a quick review of who Rudi Sutanto is called the owner of the @kurawa or Rudi Valinka buzzer account. Also read the Minister of Communication and Industry in the field of high-ranking officials, there is the name Raline Shah.

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