When Anies Baswedan Attends The 212 Reunion Wearing Official Clothes
JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan attended the 212 Grand Reunion in the Monas Silang Park area, Central Jakarta, Monday, December 2. Anies came there wearing a brown official outfit for the Governor of DKI.
The attendees of Anies were greeted with great fanfare. Even when the VOI team walked in the middle of the seated action participants, they asked us to move quickly.
"Move aside, we want to see the Governor of Indonesia," said one of the participants who took part in the event.
When he got on the stage, Anies was greeted by shouts from the attendees. Not as the Governor of Indonesia, he was shouted at 'President' instead.
"President, president. President of the Republic of Indonesia," they cheered before Anies delivered his remarks.
At the beginning of his remarks, Anies said that the 212 Grand Reunion was running smoothly and peacefully. However, according to him, many people were worried because the event was attended by hundreds of thousands of people. He gave a speech before the video of the leader of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) Rizieq Shihab was played.
"As in previous years, hundreds of thousands of people who came were worried. God willing, today when all gather, the same message today will be sent, all running calmly and peacefully," said Anies in his speech.
However, his statement was corrected by the 212 Reunion participants. "Millions of them, yes, millions, he said," said the protesters.
Anies added, this reunion is proof and a reflection of unity in Indonesia. It's just that this unity cannot be created without justice and maintaining justice cannot be done only with rhetoric, said Anies.
For example, when he led Jakarta, he tried to bring justice. This is done by not only building infrastructure physically but also paying attention to aspects of social justice, although he did not elaborate on the implementation in Jakarta.
He added that when trying to pay attention to aspects of social justice, many challenges were faced. However, this challenge will not stop him from bringing justice to the people he leads.
"We feel that in Jakarta the challenges never stop, the crowds never stop, but God willing, the noise will not disturb all efforts to bring justice to Jakarta," he said.
Before the event ended at 08.30 WIB, Anies left the place. The reason was, he had to go back to work. This was conveyed by the host of the 212 Grand Reunion, Haikal Hassan.
"Greetings from Mr. Anies Baswedan. He is not impolite to leave before it is finished, but his message just now has entered your office," said Haikal to the attendees.
He also said that Anies set a good example to stay responsible for his work. Thus, Haikal said, Anies was the Governor of the Republic of Indonesia's Presidential candidate. "He must give an example as governor of the Indonesian presidential candidate," concluded Haikal.