The Viral Story Of Edhy Prabowo From The Driver To The Minister Of KKP In Today's Memory, August 3, 2020

Prabowo Subianto and Edhy Prabowo. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, five years ago, August 3, 2020, the story of Edhy Prabowo, who used to be Prabowo Subianto's driver and massager, has now become Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) suddenly went viral on social media. Edhy has become a hot topic of conversation everywhere. The narrative boils down to Prabowo's aide Rizky Irmansyah's upload on Instagram.

Previously, the Joko Widodo (Jokowi) government tried to invite the Gerindra Party to collaborate. Gerindra was also given a share of two people as ministers. Prabowo Subianto became Minister of Defense, Edhy Prabowo became Minister of KKP.

Friends and opponents are two things that cannot last on the political stage. Prabowo and Jokowi are big examples. Both were known like sworn enemies. Both fought in high-level political contestation: the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections.

Prabowo was strong with the way of life as an opposition. He became a critical person. He has denied all kinds of policies of the Jokowi government. Prabowo even emphasized that the Jokowi government is like a neo New Order. This means that the bad style of New Order government is trying to be adopted by Jokowi.

Prabowo's criticism made support from his sympathizers flow. However, there is nothing that lasts forever in politics. Jokowi began to try to use politics to embrace it. Jokowi likes inviting his political opponents to collaborate to build Indonesia.

This wish was not wasted by the Gerindra Party. Gerindra party was honored by Jokowi's offer. They are also ready to look for cadres who are in accordance with Jokowi's work program. This wish is so that Gerindra's cadres who are ministers are far from corruption.

"If indeed Mr. Jokowi needs Gerindra cadres to help the running of his government, Gerindra has prepared these people. The cadres prepared are clean cadres, and have integrity, meaning that we are up to Pak Jokowi. "

"That is his prerogative. But they represent the government, together running the wheels of government, if they are asked from the Gerindra party they must commit to helping the government, and Gerindra members of the DPR continue to monitor and control," said Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party, Arief Poyuono as quoted by the ANTARA website, July 26, 2019.

Recently Gerindra received two ministerial rations. One for Prabowo (Minister of Defense). The other is for Edhy Prabowo (Minister of KKP). The leadership of the two in the ministry is considered capable of bringing many changes to Indonesia.

Prabowo is indeed popular. However, Edhy didn't listen much. Even so, Prabowo often praised Edhy. He considered Edhy to have shown capacity in the world of politics. Prabowo also said that he was proud of Edhy.

This pride was because he witnessed Edhy's career from below. Edhy used to be Prabowo's aide. Edhy also acts as a driver and massager. However, Edhy tries to show himself being able to be equal to Prabowo when he was Minister of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

The story of Edhy, who started his career from below, was actually uploaded by Prabowo's aide, Rizky Irmansyah, on August 3, 2020. The story went viral everywhere. However, all Indonesians are still waiting for Edhy's breakthrough. Even though Edhy himself went to iron bars for corruption.

Mr. Prabowo said to me: Edhy is a great person, he has been loyal to his leadership for a long time until now, it has not changed until now. Who thought he used to be my aide, my driver, my massager, my cook, my clothes washer, my house cleaner, and doing all the household chores, but now he sits parallel to the same position as me, the same as the Minister.

"You have to learn from Edhy, he competes against suffering, is forged into difficult circumstances, if you guide those values from an early age, one day you can be like him. It all depends on what you do today," Rizky said in his Instagram @rizky_irmansyah, August 3, 2020.