Visited By TPUA, Jokowi: There Is No Obligation To Show Their Diplomas

JAKARTA - The 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emphasized that he has no obligation to show a diploma to the Ulema Defenders Team and Activists (TPUA).

"He asked me to show his real diploma. I conveyed that there was no obligation from me to show them," he said after receiving a TPUA representative at his residence in Solo, Central Java, Wednesday, April 16, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said TPUA was also not authorized to regulate the appointment of the original diploma.

"There is no authority for them to regulate me to show my original diploma," he said.

He said Gadjah Mada University (UGM) had also clearly conveyed the diploma.

"It is very clear, yesterday at UGM it gave a clear and clear explanation," he said.

Meanwhile, on his arrival, Deputy Chairperson of the Ulama Defenders Team and Activist Rizal Fadilah said that they came to visit and wanted to know directly Jokowi's diploma.

"First, we are like the others, both want to get information and confirmation. If we can verify what is related to Pak Jokowi's diploma," he said.

However, at the meeting, he said, Jokowi did not show the original diploma according to their wishes.

"He is not willing to show a diploma, returned to the legal process. That if ordered by the court, we will show it, we have said that UGM cannot show a diploma. The certificate can only be shown to the owner, so we came to the owner, but it turns out that the owner himself did not show and even submitted it to the court process," he said.

Previously, UGM stated that it was ready to open all the academic documents of the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo during his education on campus if requested in the legal process in court.

Deputy Chancellor for Education and Teaching UGM Prof. Wening Udasmoro during a press conference at UGM, Yogyakarta, Tuesday, confirmed that his party had all supporting documents showing Jokowi was a legal student at the campus and had officially graduated.

"Joko Widodo was recorded from the beginning to the end of conducting a university tridarma at Gadjah Mada University, and we have evidence, documents, documents at the Forestry Faculty," said Wening.

This was conveyed by Wening following the arrival of dozens of people who are members of the TPUA to the Faculty of Forestry UGM, Tuesday morning, to ask for clarification regarding Jokowi's alleged fake diploma.