Anies Candidate Idol Nasdem DPW, Volunteer: We Must Support

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan/DOK Public Relations DKI Provincial Government

JAKARTA - Coordinator of the Presidium of the Prosperous Indonesia National Alliance (Anies) La Ode Basir supports the majority position of the Nasdem Party Regional Leadership Council (DPW) who wants DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to be promoted as a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.

"Anies' volunteers must support the ways the Party is trying to bring out the best leaders for this nation. We must support what the Nasdem party has done and we must appreciate it," La Ode said when contacted, Friday, June 17.

La Ode said that Anies deserved to be promoted by the party as a presidential candidate. He saw that the former Minister of Education and Culture had a good track record while leading Jakarta. Thus, he considered it appropriate for Nasdem to carry Anies.

"What the Nasdem Party has done is the best, objective way based on the track record of what Pak Anies has produced or has become the real work of during his leadership of Jakarta," he said.

It is known that as many as 34 Regional Leadership Councils (DPW) of the NasDem Party proposed the names of presidential candidates in the NasDem National Working Meeting at JCC Senayan, South Jakarta on Thursday, June 16. The majority proposed the names of DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo. Apart from these two names, the Minister of SOEs Erick Thohir and the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, General Andika Perkasa, were the most mentioned. Of the 34 DPWs present, the name Anies was proposed by 31 DPWs. The vote for Ganjar is also only slightly different from Anies, which is 29 DPW. Meanwhile, Erick's name was proposed to be more than 15 DPW and Andika more than 10 DPW.

In addition to these four names, the names of the candidates for president proposed by the regions that are widely mentioned are the Governor of West Java, Ridwan Kamil, and the Governor of East Java, Khofifah Indar Parawansa. Meanwhile, the internal NasDem cadres who have been mentioned include the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rachmat Gobel, the Deputy Chair of the MPR Lestari Moeridjat, to the Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo.