History today, nine years ago, May 6, 2017, DKI Jakarta Governor was elected, Anies Baswedan promised to build the City of Jakarta. Anies is not only focused on building infrastructure, he actually promised to build and improve his people.
Previously, Anies Baswedan was not a new person in the political world. His contribution helped Joko Widodo (Jokowi) make Anies rise in class. He was able to become Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud). Later, Anies also began to prepare himself to participate in the 2017 DKI Jakarta gubernatorial election.
No one doubts Anies Baswedan's achievements in the world of education. He was able to become the Rector of Paramadina University. This track record makes Anies understand all kinds of problems in Indonesian education.
The narrative was then voiced when he supported Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to become President of Indonesia. He chose to be Jokowi's lawyer. Anies has a big role in voicing Jokowi's desire to improve the living standards of the Indonesian people.
The use of this strategy was successful. Jokowi became President of Indonesia since 2014. Anies also got the job as Minister of Education and Culture because of his focus on building Indonesian education. Anies' steps at the Ministry of Education and Culture were short, but his influence was great.
The popularity he gained while being the Minister of Education and Culture made Anies confident to run in the 2017 DKI Jakarta Regional Election. In short, Anies was then paired with Sandiaga Uno. The two then challenged Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) and Djarot Saiful Hidayat.
Anies-Sandi tried to prepare a program and various political promises. They planned the OkTrip program (now: JakLingko) to zero percent dp house. The program was initially considered difficult to realize. However, Anies tried to convince the people of Jakarta that the program that was launched would be realized.
Even though Anies was then benefited by the identity politics pattern. Anies is an Islam, while Ahok is a Nasrani.
"Anies-Sandi succeeded in launching a very sectarian identity campaign, including (with a call for prejudice) in houses of worship, which is prone to triggering horizontal and vertical conflicts (because Ahok's former partner later became President). Populism is indeed consciously adopted and launched at the expense of minority groups in order to gain a seat of power," Poltak Partogi Nainggolan explained in the book Transition and the End of Democratic Consolidation After Soeharto (2021).
Anies was able to excel in the second round of the DKI Jakarta gubernatorial election in April 2017. He was able to defeat Ahok-Djarot. This condition made Anies-Sandi become the Governor and Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta.
Anies is happy that the people of Jakarta chose him to be the Governor of DKI Jakarta. This condition makes Anies promise again to build DKI Jakarta on May 6, 2017. Anies does not only build infrastructure. Anies is focused on building human resources.
He wants Jakarta residents to benefit and have emotional closeness to their city. The narrative makes the City of Jakarta more alive. Anies does not want development to be focused on the physical only. This condition will actually make the City of Jakarta like a dead city because its development is not enjoyed by local residents.
"Building Jakarta is not building the physical city, it is not a collection of houses, a collection of buildings, a collection of lifeless streets. It is called a city because there are people, if there is only a collection of houses or a collection of buildings, it is called a dead city," he said.
"Therefore, God willing, in the next five years, development will be carried out to the people so that the city lives and the citizens interact. This is not the victory of Anies and Sandi, this is the victory of the people of Jakarta. Yesterday, the people of Jakarta wanted to entrust the mandate to Anies and Sandi," said Anies as quoted by the lamankumparan.com, May 6, 2017.
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