The Fence Of The Surabaya Mayor's Official House, Which Is Closed High, Becomes A Spotlight

The fence of the Surabaya Mayor's official residence is closed high (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The fence of the Surabaya Mayor's official residence on Jalan Mayor Mustajab, Surabaya City, East Java, which has recently been closed high with dark fiber, has received attention from Surabaya residents.

"Yesterday, Jalan Sedap Malam, which is the access to City Hall, was closed. The residents of the houses on this road and city government employees were forced to turn around. Now the fence of the official residence is closed with dark fiber. What's going on?" said Chairman of the Golkar faction DPRD Surabaya, Arif Fathoni, quoted from Antara, Saturday.

According to him, with the high fence, residents could no longer see the yard or terrace of the official residence from outside. Even the Surabaya municipal government employees who crossed the area of the Mayor's Office every day were shocked.

Toni, the nickname of Arif Fathoni, cannot stop thinking about the phenomenon at the end of the post of Mayor of Surabaya Tri Rismaharini and ahead of the 2020 Surabaya Regional Head Election. He should have, he continued, as the regional leader of the city of Surabaya to be more open to its people, not even close themselves so that the fence at the official residence was closed high.

"It is not an exaggeration if this raises the residents' suspicion. Is there something wrong so that the access and fence of official houses must be closed," he said.

According to him, in order to anticipate the impact of the demonstration, the Omnibus Law demo, Habib Rizieq demo, or other demonstrations have also been over. Access to City Hall should be opened again and the fence at the official residence does not need to be closed high

Fathoni is of the view that so far Risma has an image of himself as a leader who is close to the people. However, at the end of his period, he took a distance from the people by closing the access road to the town hall and increasing the fence at the official residence.

This member of Commission A is a witness that the mayor's official residence since the time of Mayor Cak Narto has never been raised and closed like it is now. Only in Risma's era did things arouse suspicion.

He then questioned whether the security situation ahead of the 2020 Surabaya elections was so precarious that access was closed.

The 2020 Surabaya Pilkada was attended by Candidates for Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Surabaya, Eri Cahyadi and Armuji. The candidate pair number 01 was carried by PDI Perjuangan and supported by PSI. In addition, they also get additional strength from six non-parliamentary political parties, namely the Bulan Bintang Party (PBB), the Hanura Party, the Berkarya Party, PKPI, and the Garuda Party.

Meanwhile, the pair Machfud Arifin-Mujiaman with serial number 02 was carried by a coalition of eight parties, namely PKB, PPP, PAN, Golkar, Gerindra, PKS, Democrat and Nasdem Party and supported by a non-parliamentary party, namely the Perindo Party.