Regional Heads From PDIP Asked To Follow Bung Karno's Traditional, Design Policies Involving Experts

PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto (center) (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto asked elected regional heads promoted by his party to follow President Soekarno's intellectual traditions in formulating policies in their respective regions.

Hasto said, Bung Karno, while leading Indonesia, often invited experts and experts to design development. This was revealed in the briefing of elected regional heads from PDIP which was held in a hybrid manner.

"This is because of the intellectual traditions of Soekarno, Soekarno's intellectual tradition, regional heads from the PDI-P must invite many experts," said Hasto at the PDIP DPP Party School, Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta, Wednesday, February 12.

According to Hasto, Bung Karno always uses a clear theoretical basis, in this case the concept of national state in designing Indonesia.

Bung Karno, is said to have compiled a Universal Development Pattern Planning with experts. PDIP wants elected regional heads to be able to express the idea into a work program in their respective regions.

On that basis, Hasto hopes that the policies implemented by the regional head of the PDIP basin must be based on research and in-depth research, referring to theoretical guidelines found from developing social phenomena such as those carried out by the Proclaimer.

"So our regional heads are obliged to make policies based on research. So, the theory is a guide, because the theory was found from a social phenomenon that fell at that time, which Soekarno confirmed that the world underwent extraordinary changes after the French revolution," explained Hasto.

PDIP briefing was attended by 142 elected regional heads in the 2024 Pilkada, both at the provincial and district/city levels ahead of the inauguration. The first wave of briefing was attended by the first elected regional head. Meanwhile, the incumbent will receive the next batch of briefings.

Of the 142 elected regional heads who received the first batch of briefings, the majority or as many as 71 people were internal cadres. Then, as many as 45 people came from ASN or bureaucrats, 23 from businessmen or private circles, 1 person with a TNI/Polri background, and 2 academics.

Hasto said that this briefing also aims so that elected regional heads have preparedness in undergoing regional head treatment at the Magelang Military Academy, Central Java.

It is planned that President Prabowo Subianto will gather elected regional heads in the first batch of retreats on February 21-28, 2025. The retreat was carried out after the regional head was sworn in on February 20.

"This is also a briefing so that later when receiving direction and galvanization from the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Prabowo Subianto and all levels of state government that will be carried out in Magelang. So, all elected regional heads and deputy regional heads already have provisions in a conception to form our country," he added.