Joining Jokowi's Coalition Considered Bad Impact, 2024 Election Predicted To Be A Graveyard For PAN

JAKARTA - The Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) has officially joined the Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin government coalition in the second National Working Meeting which was held at the PAN House, Warung Buncit, South Jakarta, Tuesday, August 31.

A political observer from Indonesia's Al Azhar University Andriadi Achmad warned that PAN would not make a mistake if the reason for joining the coalition was to increase votes in the 2024 General Election.

"Speaking of Power is very interesting. Power is like sugar in a swarm of ants. In general, the closeness of political parties to power can have both positive and negative impacts", Andriadi told VOI, Thursday, September 2.

According to him, if power is considered positive and successful by the community while leading and in power, it will also have a positive impact on political parties. That is in the form of increasing votes in elections.

On the other hand, Andriadi said, if power is considered negative and does not work while in power, it will result in a decrease in electoral votes for the supporting political parties.

Therefore, Andriadi reminded, PAN must make precise political calculations if it joins a government coalition, shifting from an opposition political party to a government-supporting political party (coalition).

"If you make a mistake in making political decisions, don't increase votes in the election. Even the joining of PAN with the government coalition will actually have an impact on reducing votes in the 2024 election", Andriadi said.

The Executive Director of the Nusantara Institute PolCom SRC said that the question that needs to be asked is whether the government under Jokowi's leadership is considered successful or failed by the Indonesian people.

The reason is, the joining of PAN with the government coalition, in the hope that the "minister" political cake in the government is the same as during the first period of Jokowi 2014 - 2019.

"Where when PAN joined later in the government coalition, it got the position of Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform, Asman Abnur. Same with the current reality, when PAN will join the government coalition in the middle of the journey", he said.

Meanwhile, he continued, Zulkifli Hasan hopes that in the future by joining the government coalition, will have a good impact and increase the electoral vote in the 2024 election.

"In my opinion, the joining of PAN with the government coalition in the future will have a bad impact on PAN. It could be the 2024 election, a grave for PAN", said Andriadi.

Because Andriadi explained, after being left by the main group Amien Rais and the establishment of the Ummat Political Party, PAN was actually on the verge of not passing the Parliamentary Threshold (PT) with the current fractured condition.

"Moreover, recent surveys have shown that the reality is that PAN did not pass the 4 percent Parliamentary Threshold in the 2024 election", he said.