Quick Response To Chocolate Envelopes At Pertamina Meeting, DPR Value Experts Are Maintaining People's Trust

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Political Communications expert Ari Junaedi assessed that the DPR is showing its commitment to maintaining public trust by strengthening transparency and accountability within the legislature. Like when there was a false narrative regarding the bribery envelope in the middle of a work meeting some time ago.

"The commitment of the DPR to maintain a transparent parliament, accountability and ethics is a form of responsibility as an institution from the representation of the people," said Ari Junaedi, Tuesday, March 18.

Ari appreciated Commission VI of the DPR for responding quickly to the narrative that developed in the public when the issue of the bribery envelope from Pertamina during the meeting. According to him, the public must immediately get a clear clarification. Thus, in this era of openness, both the public and the DPR can get equal feedback.

"The public can strengthen their trust in the DPR and the DPR can show its commitment to guarding democracy," said the Postgraduate Teacher of The London School of Public Relations Institute.

Ari assessed that the DPR was able to make incidents that were recently crowded as opportunities to further strengthen institutional integrity. The DPR is also said to be able to ensure that each member carries out his duties with full professionalism and responsibility.

"And the public must also get the right literacy regarding the work of parliament in the era of disseminating information through social media that is not intact," said Ari.

Previously, a video clip of the House of Representatives Commission VI meeting with PT Pertamina showing a member of the DPR with yellow batik receiving a brown envelope had drawn the public spotlight. Commission VI of the House of Representatives confirmed that the narrative that accompanies the video was slander.

A video clip of the House of Representatives Commission VI meeting with Pertamina on Tuesday, March 11, went viral on social media with a narrative peppered with questions about whether the envelope was a bribe. The uploader of the meeting footage highlighted a member of the yellow-batik DPR who turned out to be a member of Commission VI of the House of Representatives Herman Khaeron when signing documents and then keeping a brown envelope under his desk.

Apparently, the brown envelope that Herman Khaeron took was official money. During a meeting, the DPR secretariat asked Herman Khaeron to sign a travel order (SPPD) while handing over official money which is the right of members of the DPR.

Related to this, Ari assessed that the DPR is often the target of disinformation through incomplete video pieces on social media.

"In today's era, incomplete information issues tend to become disinformation that the public responds to reactively. Without confirming the truth, the public is often quick to sentence it without wanting to verify its validity," explained the Director of the Nusakom Pratama Political Studies Institute.

"Of course this problem is increasingly becoming a challenge and a trigger for the DPR to continue to improve and continue to be criticized by the public," added Ari.

Moreover, Ari continued, the public often supervises the DPR as a form of concern so that the work of council members will also have an impact on the DPR as an institution.

"Adagium publik senang mengkritik karena mereka memiliki kepedulian agar parlemen menjadi baik seharusnya terus diperingatkan oleh insan-insan parlemen, ucapnya.

"If the Council members have worked optimally, of course the public will give appreciation, but if there are members of the Council who injure public trust, of course the impact will not only be on the members of the Council concerned but also regarding the DPR as an institution," added Ari.

Previously, Deputy Chairman of Commission VI of the House of Representatives Andre Rosiade said that the assumption that Commission VI received bribes from Pertamina was a false narrative. He also asked Herman Khaeron to clarify the brown envelope in order to avoid slander.

"It signed the SPPD regarding official travel. Incidentally, the envelope has not been taken. Last week the official trip was only signed and taken yesterday," said Andre Rosiade, Wednesday, March 12.

Meanwhile, Herman Khaeron emphasized that he only received SPPD which had not been taken from the secretariat. "I didn't have time because I am the head of the State Financial Accountability Agency (BAKN DPR) which I also have to serve there," said Herman.

"So yes, I never had bad thoughts, I never thought anything, I signed here (the Commission VI room) and I received my SPPD at the table here with a yellow shirt batik," he added.