Akhyar Nasution Is Considered To Have Mastered The Substance, Bobby Nasution Is Considered Not Yet Concrete

Candidate for mayor Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi during the Medan Pilkada debate (Screenshot of Youtube Inews)

JAKARTA - The pair of candidates for mayor-deputy mayor of Medan, Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi, is considered to have mastered the substance in the Medan Pilkada debate.

Akhyar Nasution in the Medan Pilkada debate talked about the vision of realizing a beautiful Medan City with character towards a city that is comfortable and happy for its citizens. This vision is called a combination of thoughts of Akhyar and Salman Alfarisi, a PKS cadre.

There are a number of missions carried by the couple with the acronym Aman. First, Medan has a character, namely a Medan city that lives in mutual respect and side by side.

"Medan people love each other. Medan is a character," said Akhyar in the Medan Pilkada debate, Saturday, November 7.

Meanwhile, the candidate for deputy mayor Salman Alfarisi spoke of 3 other missions, namely Medan Friends, Medan Maju and Medan Sejahtera.

Medan Berkawan, according to him, will be implemented including government governance and digitizing data and information.

"Medan is advanced, we must have the courage to work together and innovate. Bureaucratic transparency, we want to create a beautiful climate that is competitive. Medan Sejahtera, the expansion of the acceleration of welfare must be proportional to infrastructure. To increase the capacity of the community in Medan independently, ”said Salman.

In the Medan Pilkada debate, the candidate for mayor of Medan number 2 Bobby Nasution spoke directly about the current conditions in Medan, from floods, garbage and infrastructure. Bobby also mentioned the lack of digital-based MSMEs in Medan.

Akhyar immediately rejected Bobby Nasution's statement. According to him, many MSMEs in Medan are online based.

"I have checked in the field, met a number of MSMEs that make masks, for example. I wanted to buy their masks, but they couldn't sell them to me, because all their products were selling well. Buyers are from outside North Sumatra. Then I asked, how did you sell it until it was bought by people from outside North Sumatra? They say that sales are already using an online system, "said Akhyar.

These facts, said Akhyar, prove that the UMKM sector in Medan is digitally literate. Even now there are services that provide household needs, such as online cooking ingredients, such as the Raja Sayur start-up.

"So if it is said that SMEs in Medan have not implemented a digital system, that is a big mistake," he said.

Akhyar believes that in the future digital-based businesses in Medan will grow. Meanwhile, when Akhyar asked Bobby-Aulia Rachman's views on the Job Creation Law regarding the authority of the regional government, Bobby did not answer straightforwardly.

"Therefore, Medan City Government also needs to be in line with the central government," said Bobby.

Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the North Sumatra University (USU) H Syakhyan Asmara assessed that the Medan Pilkada debate is still warming. It's just that according to him, the Akhyar-Salman pair have more control over substance so they are able to offer concrete and solution ideas.

Meanwhile, the pair Bobby and Aulia discussed more macro issues without the support of strong data.

"Maybe in the future debate, Bobby and Aulia need to master complete data. If it's just a discourse, they will lose to Akhyar Nasution, who has more control over the field, ”said Syakhyan.