Someone Alludes To PDI-P The Arrogant Party, Megawati: Why?

Megawati Soekarnoputri at the PDIP National Working Meeting (Photo: Wardhany T/VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairperson of the PDI-P (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri asked back those who insinuated her party as an arrogant party. He admitted that he was surprised by the innuendo.

This was conveyed by Megawati in front of her cadres during the second PDIP National Working Meeting (Rakernas) in 2021 at the PDIP DPP Party School, Lenteng Agung, Jakarta, Tuesday, June 21.

"There are also those who say 'there is a very arrogant party'. Why is it called arrogant? Why is that?" Megawati said.

Megawati then reminded PDIP that she had built herself without ever offending anyone, including other political parties. So, he hopes that no party will create a division.

"I have never, you know, never vilified any party. I have never (badly, red) any party leader," he said.

"I walked alone to form my party which I respect and love, which is called the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle," added the 5th President of the Republic of Indonesia.

Some time ago, the general chairman of the NasDem Party, Surya Paloh, had insinuated that there was a party that was arrogant and felt that he was the greatest. He delivered this innuendo in his closing speech at the National Working Meeting (Rakernas) of the NasDem Party at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Senayan, Jakarta, Friday, June 17.

Initially, Surya said that his party knew that it could not nominate a presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate alone because it did not meet the presidential threshold requirement or the 20 percent presidential threshold. To that end, his party continues to open communication with any party.

"We must be able to maintain communication with all components of society in a wiser, more flexible way. Get rid of that practice of arrogance, feel great on your own, feel the most stable yourself. That's not NasDem, what's the matter?" said Surya.

The NasDem Party, said Surya, wanted to bring a happy political atmosphere, not insult each other. He then asked the NasDem cadres not to imitate this arrogant political style.

"This is much more meaningful and awaited by this nation, politics is condescending to one another, arrogant with self-arrogance, like the Malays say, this slave is wrong," he said.

"What do we want to emulate from the spirit of thinking like that, with the capital of arrogance as if the most correct, the strongest, the most powerful. That means nothing to NasDem," he concluded.