PDIP Responds To Budi Arie Who Wants To Join Gerindra: Support Prabowo While Nitip Gibran?

JAKARTA - Chairman of the PDIP DPP Said Abdullah, responded to the news that the General Chairperson of Projo, Budi Arie, wanted to join the Gerindra Party. Said assessed that only Budi Arie knew the reason he wanted to join the party made by President Prabowo Subianto.

Including, Said said, Budi Arie's political calculations want to entrust Gibran Rakabuming Raka. As is known, Budi Arie is the head of volunteers who supports the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia as well as Gibran's father, Joko Widodo in the 2014 presidential election and the 2019 presidential election.

"If Budi Arie today escorts Projo to Gerindra. To Mr. Prabowo, his political logic may be like that. From the perspective of Budi Arie's glasses, Budi Arie's political calculations. Is there something that Budi Arie is hiding? Of course Budi Arie knows better," Said said at the DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, November 4.

"That he supports Mr. Prabowo while going to ride something behind him with Mr. Gibran's tweet, for example, it's normal. That's just a political strategy," continued the chairman of the DPR Banggar.

Regarding Budi Arie's assumption that he wants to find safety from the alleged involvement of online gambling cases, Said assessed that Gerindra could not accept people with criminal backgrounds.

"I don't look at it from that side. Because for me, Gerindra is not a place for a group of criminals. Gerindra is not a place for a group of people affected by criminal protection. Maybe Gerindra's friends will be angry too if they are digitized. I don't think that's it. This is purely Budi Arie's political logic," said Said.

Said emphasized that Gerindra is the same as PDIP, namely making the party a gathering place for people who can give great thoughts for the progress of the nation.

"Far from my mind that Gerindra is a place for people to take shelter in quotes. We can't immediately judge people. In quotes there is a criminal connection and then run to Gerindra. Surely Gerindra also doesn't want to," he said.

As previously reported, the General Chairperson of Projo Budi Arie Setiadi called for hundreds of volunteers who were present at the opening of the Projo Third Congress to strengthen the political party led by President Prabowo Subianto to support his entire political agenda.

"We hope to strengthen Pak Prabowo's political agenda so that Prabowo's leadership can be stronger, more solid. And because of that, we will strengthen the entire President's political agenda by strengthening the political party led by the President," Budi Arie said in a speech in Jakarta, Saturday, November 1.

Budi Arie hopes that Projo volunteers can understand that one day he will join certain political parties. Even so, he did not specify the name of the political party he was referring to.

"Please allow me if one day I party, Projo's friends can understand it. Don't ask again what party. For what reason? I may be the only person asked by the President directly in a forum," he said.

Budi stated, as a pioneer supporting President Prabowo and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Projo is committed to continuing to support and strengthen the Prabowo-Gibran government.

"Because we believe this is the people's mandate, we want to support, strengthen so that this government does not fail. Are you ready ?," said Budi, who was answered "ready" by the volunteers present.