AHY's Criticism To Jokowi About 'Gunting Pit' Is Considered Only For The Sake Of Supporting

President Jokowi inaugurated the Bintang Bano Dam in West Sumbawa Regency. (Photo: BPMI Setpres/Muchlis Jr)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Democratic Party, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) is considered to have made a mistake by insinuating President Joko Widodo just to cut the band for an infastructure project built in the era of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Pengamat politik Pangi Syarwi Chaniago menjelaskan, setiap presiden pasti memiliki kelebihan dan kekurangan masing-masing.

However, criticism or more leaning towards an attack, what AHY did to Jokowi was nothing but an effort to increase his personal and party electability.

"Of course, a method like this is to increase AHY's electability or a demonstration," said the Executive Director of the Voxpol Center Research and Consulting, Sunday, September 25.

Pangi also reminded that the opposition had the right to criticize the government. However, he reminded to use the data.

"It is not based on one-sided assumptions or perceptions," he said.

Speaking of data, Pangi suggested AHY should be more careful. He also gave an example of how PDIP was in opposition in the SBY era.

Based on the data, SBY only built 189.2 km of toll roads from 2004 to 2019.

Meanwhile, Jokowi has built 1,762.3 km of toll roads since taking office in 2014. In fact, 750 km of toll roads are targeted for completion by 2024.

Then, it was recorded that there were 18 dams starting construction in the SBY era. However, everything was completed in the Jokowi era.

Jokowi is also known to have built 12 dams since taking office. If accumulated, there are 30 dams completed in the Jokowi era. In the Jokowi era, it is also targeted that there will be 27 more dams until 2024.

Furthermore, there were 24 airports built in the SBY era. Meanwhile, in the Jokowi era as many as 29 airports.

Jokowi is even known to target that there will be 9 new airports and revitalizations until 2024.

In addition, 316,590 km of village roads were completed construction in the Jokowi era.

The village infrastructure achievements in the Jokowi era include 1,597,539 m bridges; 1,474,544 units of village clean water; 501,054 units of village irrigation; 12,297 village markets, and 42,357 posyandu.