Dynastic Political Slanted Sentiment When Almost Half Of Solo Pilkada Voters Did Not Vote For Gibran

Calon was quoted as Solo Gibran Rakabuming Raka (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The pair of candidates for Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Solo, Gibran Rakabuming Raka-Teguh Prakoso, won a landslide victory in the 2020 Pilkada quick count, and defeated opposing candidate pairs who were on the independent route.

Based on Charta Politika's quick count, Gibran-Teguh won 87.15 percent. Meanwhile, his opponent was Bagyo Wahyono-FX Supardjo (Bajo) 12.85 percent.

This victory figure is also not much different from the recapitulation of internal votes collected by witnesses candidate pair Gibran-Teguh at each polling station during the voting.

To VOI, the Chairperson of the PDI-P Solo National Election Witnesses Body (BSPN), Sapto Rahardjo explained the results of the collected internal recapitulation. "This data was collected on December 9 at 23.15 WIB," said Sapto, December 14.

From a total of five sub-districts in Solo, Gibran-Teguh received 225,326 votes or 86.13 percent. Meanwhile, Bajo received 36,298 votes or 13.87 percent.

But when compared to the votes acquired by Gibran-Teguh from the total final voter list (DPT), it turns out that almost half of the voters did not vote for Gibran. They cast their votes on opposing candidate pairs or choose to allow the ballots to become invalid or unused.

Still in the data recapitulation owned by BSPN PDIP, the total DPT that can use voting rights is 419,347 voters. However, only 295,041 voters were present at the TPS and voter turnout was only 69.32 percent. Meanwhile, there were 124,306 voters who did not use their voting rights.

If you combine the votes of the voters who casted their ballot for Bajo, plus the invalid votes because they were not used, 160,604 voters did not vote for Gibran-Teguh.

This means that almost half of the voters or 45.57 percent did not vote for Gibran-Teguh, and 54.43 who voted for Gibran-Teguh.

A political observer from Al-Azhar University, Ujang Komarudin, considered the figure of 45.57 percent who did not vote for the candidate pair nominated by the PDIP to be a blow to Gibran. This figure shows that there are a number of people who are embarrassed by the political practices of the dynasty between Gibran and President Jokowi, even though they are in Solo, which incidentally is the home of the PDIP.

"As a base for a bull cage and as a son of the president, this is a warning. Because the people are too fed up with the politics that pretends to be a dynasty. Because the ones who will become are the same families," said Ujang.

This can be seen from the comparison of the votes obtained between Gibran and his father who competed ten years ago in the same city.

During the 2010 Pilkada in Solo, Jokowi, who was paired with FX Hadi Rudyatmo, received 90 percent of the votes with a participation rate of 71.7 percent. Then, in the 2019 presidential election as many as 82.23 percent of Solo voters chose Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin.

Ujang explained that the low voter turnout and almost half of the DPT did not vote for Gibran could be a form of protest against the political system in Solo to clean up.

"This can be an alarm and a yellow light for Gibran. The people of Solo seem to be smart, understand, and know the political situation in their area. They already know Gibran will win. They already know a lot of conditioning. So, people protest by not choosing Gibran with numbers. 45.57 percent, "he concluded.

Who is Gibran Rakabuming really

Gibran Rakabuming Raka is the eldest of three children, Joko Widodo and Iriana. Gibran was born on October 1, 1987. A child who succeeded in changing his father's decision to return to his hometown in Solo instead of continuing his career at that time at the state-owned company, PT Kraft Aceh in the Gayo area, West Aceh. Jokowi's longing for Iriana, the wife who is carrying a baby, will later be named Gibran Rakabuming.

In order to pump up Jokowi's fighting spirit, he immortalized the name of his first child as the name of his first pioneering company in the wood industry, PT Rakabu.

From childhood until he graduated from Junior High School, Gibran spent his time in his hometown of Solo, Central Java. He then continued high school in Singapore through Orchid Park Secondary School. After high school he studied at the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) and the University of Technology Insearch, Sydney, Australia. Gibran completed his studies in Australia in 2010.

For 8 years Gibran lived an independent life abroad, before later returning to his homeland. Gibran learns to grow up to be an independent child. At that time, his father began to experience promotions, starting from the Mayor of Solo, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, to the seat of RI-1 in 2014–2019.

In 2010 in December Gibran pioneered the catering business through the Chilli Pari catering business. So he was appointed as chairman of the Solo City Indonesian Food Service Companies Association (APJBI). In order to expand the quality of English for the employees of the Chili Pari catering, he founded the House of Knowledge. A teaching house that trains quality English.

On 11 June 2015 Gibran married Selvi Ananda, a former daughter of Solo. Then on March 10, 2016 they were both blessed with a cute looking boy named Jan Ethes Srinarendra. Four years later in 2019, Gibran's second child was born and was named La Lembah Manah. - The VOI team has written everything about Gibran Rakabuming. This includes Gibran who started his first venture capital with Chili Pari through a bank loan. Check out that information through Knowing Who Gibran Rakabuming Really Is -

In 2015, Gibran and his younger brother Kaesang Pangarep collaborated to open a joint business through "Markobar" an acronym for Martabak Kota Baru. A culinary business that focuses on selling their two signature martabak, eight signature flavors. Starting in Solo, now Markobar is claimed to have 29 branches in major cities in Indonesia.

He also co-founded an application to find freelance and part-time workers called Kerjaholic with Leonard Hidayat, Josh Ching, Michael, Daniel Hidayat. Kerjaholic is an application that can connect job seekers with parties who are looking for freelance and part time workers.

Together with Kevin Susanto, Gibran is again opening a startup called Goola. A modern version of traditional drinks with 22 drink menus in four series: Signature (superior product), Tea (tea), Coffee (coffee), and Refreshing (fresh drink). The startup business made by Gibran and his colleagues was also given funding worth 5 million dollars, or the equivalent of Rp 70 billion from the venture capital of Alpha JWC Features.

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