PSI Ready To Make Senayan 'Noise'

PSI Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Trustees Grace Natalie (Photo: PSI Youtube)

JAKARTA - Chair of the Indonesian House of Representatives' Budget Agency (Banggar) Said Abdullah satirized PSI's Deputy Chairperson of the Advisory Board, Grace Natalie, who said she would make Senayan 'noise' if her party passed to parliament.

He admitted that he was amused to see Grace, which was judged to only create a sensation. Moreover, challenging the budget discussion meeting in the DPR to be made live or live broadcast.

According to Said, Grace Natalie is confused about PSI's electability, which is stuck at 1 percent in a number of surveys. Thus making promises that provoke public laughter.

"Sister Grace Natalie is probably just looking for a sensation, confused about increasing the electability of her party, which is still stuck at 1 percent. Let them do that, it's their right, but the people will laugh at them if they make statements that are not based on facts," Said Abdullah told reporters on Friday. December 24.

Furthermore, Said explained that currently many meetings in the DPR have been broadcast live so that the public can watch the meeting transparently.

"Not only the DPR's Budget Board meetings, all Council Apparatus Meetings (AKD) when declared open to the public are always broadcast live by Parliament's TV, including all DPR social media channels, both Facebook and Instagram," he explained.

Meanwhile, closed meetings, said Abdullah, are usually related to state secrets and of course have a legal basis. He gave examples of closed meetings such as the report from the State Intelligence Agency to Commission I to the report from the Bank Indonesia Supervision Agency to Commission XI of the DPR.

"In addition to strategic matters relating to state secrecy, all DPR AKD meetings are open to the public. Even DPR Budget Board meetings related to APBN discussions starting from Macroeconomic Policy and Fiscal Policy Principles to the final discussion of the APBN, even APBN accountability reports from the previous year. open to the public and can be watched through the channels above," said Said Abdullah.

Said even invited Grace Natalie to request documentation from the Secretariat General of the DPR regarding the DPR's Budget Board meetings which are open to the public.

"I and the Deputy Chairpersons of the DPR's Budget Agency take turns chairing the meetings, as chairmen of the meetings, and know very well that many budget board meetings are held openly," he said.

The chairman of the PDIP DPP also suggested that Grace Natalie should not speak if she did not fully follow the dynamics of the parliament.

"So I felt amused when I saw Sister Grace Natalie's statement. She said she was literate in information technology, but she didn't update on existing developments, it was really sad," said Said Abdullah.

Previously, the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) on its 7th anniversary (HUT) carried high ideals, namely qualifying for the DPR. PSI's Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Trustees Grace Natalie said PSI would make noise at 'Senayan'.

Grace initially mentioned PSI's internal condition which is now getting stronger. According to him, PSI gets a lot of additional energy.

"In fact, today PSI will be stronger and must be stronger, because we get a lot of new energy from young people, who joined PSI after seeing the performance of this party after the last 7 years," said Grace in her speech at the celebration of the anniversary 7 PSI, at the Djakarta Theater, Jakarta, Wednesday, December 22.

Grace emphasized that PSI would continue to oversee the policies of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), who was present in person at the location. He invited all PSI cadres to work harder.

"PSI will continue to oversee Pak Jokowi's policies, protect people's money and care for Indonesia. Come on, Bro and Sis, we will work even harder," he said.

After that, only then did Grace state that PSI's target was to pass to the DPR. If they pass, Grace ensures that members of the PSI faction will maintain the budget.

"PSI must pass to Senayan. We will make a noise in Senayan, so that the people's money will not continue to be robbed by robbers using the guise of 'people's representatives'," said Grace.