Volunteer Pede Anies Will Be Eyed By Political Parties Ahead Of The Presidential Election, 'We Create Momentum'

DKI Governor Anies Baswedan (Photo via Facebook Anies Baswedan)

JAKARTA - A volunteer group calling itself the Prosperous Indonesia National Alliance (ANIES) last month officially declared its support for the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan to become President of the Republic of Indonesia in the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election. . However, La Ode believes Anies can run as one of the presidential candidates in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. According to him, ahead of the determination of the presidential and vice presidential candidates, political party elites will look to Anies Baswedan because of his good electability and popularity through survey results. Moreover, La Ode said, usually political parties only announce the nominations for the presidential and vice presidential candidates two to three weeks before the registration of candidates to the KPU. Even in the 2019 presidential election, the supporting parties announced that the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin pair would only take one or two hours. There are only a few people who decide, namely some elite party leaders. It is very limited to only the chairman and secretary general. "We have to believe that these elites, whose time is very short, usually refer to the results of surveys related to popularity and electability. We believe in the rationality of the party leaders, if Anies has high popularity, high electability, I believe there will be many parties that will invite him, carry him," La Ode told VOI, Thursday, November 4.

In addition to the rights of political party elites, ANIES volunteers are also considering the discourse of the 2024 Simultaneous Election implementation. Where the Pilleg and Presidential Elections are held simultaneously. "This influences and complements each other, almost all party candidates want to win, how many candidates are elected. One of the endorsements to increase legislative candidates is that the presidential candidate goes hand in hand, the presidential candidate is also marketable in the community with high popularity," explained La Ode. He believes that the ANIES volunteers who were formed after observing the 4 years of leadership of the former minister of education and culture can solidly lead their champions to participate in the 2024 presidential election.

"How to socialize it? We already said that after October 2022 he doesn't have a position, some say he lost the stage, I answered yes, we are here to build a stage, maybe we are only a small part of the community that supports Anies together collaborating to provide a stage for Mr. Anies and visited all over Indonesia," said La Ode.

La Ode said that currently ANIES volunteers consisting of a combination of organizational activists have been running for consolidation in the regions. It's just a matter of managing the rhythm so that for the next one to two years the volunteers are always active, and Anies always has news. Of course, it also keeps Anies' electability and popularity running smoothly.

"Besides the rhythm, we are also looking for activities so that the news is good, electability is good. We make that momentum," said La Ode.