West Java PDIP Letters To DPP Asking For Arteria Dahlan To Be Fired

Chairman of the West Java PDIP DPD Ono Surono/PHOTO VIA BETWEEN HO PDIP JABAR

BANDUNG - The West Java PDI-P DPD asked the PDI-P DPP to fire Arteria Dahlan as a PDI-P cadre in the aftermath of his statement that questioned Kajati using Sundanese in a working meeting.

Chairman of the West Java PDIP DPD Ono Surono said the request had been submitted to the PDIP DPP through a letter requesting sanctions. According to him, PDIP asked the DPP to give Arteria the toughest sanctions.

"Earlier, the sanctions were the most severe. The sanctions range from warnings, warnings, to dismissal," said Ono in Bandung, West Java, quoted by Antara, Thursday, January 20.

Even so, according to him, the dismissal was a decision of the Central Executive Board (DPP). The request for dismissal, he said, was made as a stern warning to the member of Commission III of the DPR from the PDI-P faction.

According to him, what Arteria Dahlan did was inappropriate for a PDI-P cadre to say. Even from yesterday, he said, many PDI-P cadres in West Java had said the same thing.

He said that the ideology of Pancasila for the PDI-P is not only textual, but is required to ground Pancasila. One of them, he said, must be to glorify all ethnic groups, cultures, religions and races in Indonesia.

"Because it is an embodiment of how Pancasila can be carried out as well as possible, with Pancasila whose essence is mutual cooperation," he said.

Previously, Arteria Dahlan had apologized to the people of West Java regarding his statement during the DPR Commission III Working Meeting with the Attorney General's Office a few days ago.

"I sincerely apologize to the people of West Java, especially the Sundanese people for my statement some time ago," said Arteria after giving clarification to the PDIP DPP, at the PDIP DPP Office, Menteng, Jakarta, Thursday.

Arteria's clarification and apology was delivered when received by the Secretary General of the PDI-P DPP Hasto Kristiyanto, and the Chairman of the PDIP DPP Komarudin Watubun.

Arteria Dahlan's statement regarding the Sundanese language was conveyed as a criticism to the Attorney General on Monday (17/1). According to him, there was an official from the Head of the High Prosecutor's Office (Kajati) who spoke Sundanese at work meetings.

He also asked the Attorney General to replace Kajati who used the Sundanese language. However, Arteria did not reveal who Kajati was talking about in Sundanese.

"Pak JA (Prosecutor General), there was a Kajati who was in the meeting, in the working meeting he spoke in Sundanese, replace that sir. We are Indonesia," said Arteria as seen from the video on the DPR RI YouTube account.