The Moment Of Indonesian Pelilat Hugs Jokowi And Prabowo In Today's Memory, 29 August 2018

The moment of the fighters Hanifan Kususmah Yudani hugged Jokowi and Prabowo. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, six years ago, August 29, 2018, the 2018 Asian Games gold winner, Hanifan Kusumah Yudani celebrated by hugging President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Prabowo Subianto. The momentum was considered special because the two figures were considered sworn enemies.

Previously, the 2014 election brought together Jokowi against Prabowo for the first time. Jokowi is paired with Jusuf Kalla (JK). While Prabowo chose Hatta Rajasa. Jokowi also emerged as the winner.

The political contestation of the 2014 Presidential Election was greeted with great fanfare. The presidential election brought together two main parties with their respective candidates. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) won the Jokowi-JK pair. The Indonesai Raya Movement (Gerindra) Party camp hosted Prabowo-Hatta.

The campaign engine is heated. Political promises are spread. Competition is starting to heat up. The two sympathizers of the couple are fighting over each other's ideas. They try to spy on each other's unreasonable political promises from each party.

The long-awaited day arrived on July 9, 2014. In accordance with Indonesia, he then went to the existing polling stations to vote on the presidential and vice presidential candidates according to his conscience. The voting went smoothly.

The survey institute then played its part. The results of the quick count were announced immediately. Victory also sided with Jokowi-JK. The Prabowo-Hatta camp was furious. The results of the survey agency are considered not final and are more looking forward to the official count results.

In fact, the results obtained were not much different. The official KPU calculations revealed that Jokowi-JK dominated with 53.15 percent, while Prabowo-Hatta only got 46.85 percent. Prabowo's camp again does not accept it. The results of the 2014 presidential election are trying to be sued to the Constitutional Court (MK).

Prabowo alleges that there has been systematic fraud at 55 thousand polling stations. The issue of the additional voter list that boomed while being directed to vote for Jokowi-JK was a problem.

Prabowo-Hatta claims they have evidence of cheating as many as 10 cargo trucks. However, the Constitutional Court rejected all of Prabowo-Hatta's demands.

Prabowo should have focused on legal steps. He needed extra personnel to prove accusations against the KPU, which he always repeated like a mantra: there has been massive, systematic, and structured fraud in the 2014 presidential election.

The claim of bringing in ten trucks of evidence, deploying 2,000 lawyers, bringing thousands of witnesses to the Constitutional Court, and deploying 30 thousand supporters may be important for him to convince the constituents," wrote Tempo Magazine's report entitled Guard of the Violenceless Session (2014).

The heat pressure of Jokowi and Prabowo is always presented. Jokowi, who is the President of Indonesia, often gets the attention of Prabowo who chooses to be an opportunity. Jokowi's performance is often the target of criticism.

However, the heat pressure eased slightly on August 29, 2018. Jokowi and Prabowo, who incidentally were the General Chairperson of the Indonesian Pencak Silat Association (PB IPSI), attended the final of the 2018 Asian Games silat match at the Pencak Silat Padepokan, TMII, Jakarta.

Jokowi arrived during the final round of the men's 55-60 kilograms class c. The match brought together between Indonesian fighters, Hanifan Kusumah Yudani, and Vietnam's fighter, Tha Linh Nguyen. As a result, Hanifan won and was entitled to the 2018 Asian Games gold.

Hanifan also celebrated by visiting Jokowi and Prabowo. Hanifan then hugged the two of them and made the whole room move fast. The momentum is considered rare. The public already considered the two of them like sworn enemies. Moreover, in the upcoming 2019 presidential election, the two of them will return to competing.

"Let the Indonesian people know that Jokowi and Prabowo are nothing. That's all. Only a handful of people are attracted to them because of their success," said Hanifan giving the reason as quoted by the CNN Indonesia page, August 29, 2018.