4 Criteria For Menpora Candidates To Replace Zainudin Amali According To Observers, One Of Them Is Loyal To President Jokowi

Zainudin Amali (center) (Doc. Kemenpora)

YOGYAKARTA - The Indonesian Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) Zainudin Amali is confirmed to have resigned from his position as Menpora after he was elected as one of the deputy chairmen of PSSI. That way the President must find a replacement for Zainudin Amali.

In this regard, Ujang Komarudin, a political observer from Al Azhar Indonesia University, explained that there were four criteria for a candidate for Menpora to replace Zainudin Amali.

Criteria for Candidates for Menpora Substitute Zainudin Amali

Quoted from Antara, Ujang Komarudin conveyed the four criteria for Menpora through his written statement, namely as follows.

1. Understand and Able to Manage Sports

Ujang explained that the first criterion that must exist in replacing Zainudin as Menpora is that he must understand and be able to manage sports more than Zainudin Amali. He also said that in the Amali era, three years in a row Kemenpora WTP or unqualified opinion from BPK.

"Kemenpora has been in the Amali era for three consecutive years WTP (unqualified opinion from the Supreme Audit Agency). National and international sports achievements are more developed. This means that the figure to replace Amali must be more accomplished, understand and be able to manage sports, this is important", he explained.

2. Have Integrity

Besides that, the candidate to replace Amali must also have integrity. Ujang said that integrity is a big capital to becoming a state official, especially a minister.

3. Acceptable by All Parties

From a political point of view, Amali's replacement must be acceptable in various circles, not limited to parties, but acceptable to all groups and people.

"Third, politically, the figure to replace Amali must be someone who can be accepted by all groups. When you become a minister, you are no longer the minister of the Golkar Party, but the minister of all groups, the minister of all interests, and the minister of the people", he said.

4. Loyal to President Jokowi

Ujang Komarudin also considered that the fourth criterion that a candidate to replace Zainudin Amali needs to have is closeness and loyalty to President Jokowi.

"Ministers are the president's men, of course, they must be close to and loyal to the president", he explained.

Substitute name for Zainudin Amali

As is known, Zainudin Amali's resignation as Menpora was conveyed to President Jokowi informally. Regarding the figure to replace Amali, a political observer from the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, Adi Prayitno assessed that there was a possibility that the Menpora position would come from the Golkar Party.

"The best Golkar cadres will be replaced", said Adi Prayitno in Jakarta recently.

Adi Prayitno also revealed the criteria for replacing Amali, namely as follows.

1. Must be in accordance with the Menpora portfolio
2. Has contributed to Jokowi's victory as president
3. Have long political experience

There is one name that is said to have the potential to replace Amali, namely the Chairperson of the West Java Golkar DPD who is also the Deputy Chairperson of Commission VIII DPR Ace Hasan Syadzily.

"Those characteristics, if you see a natural sign, point to Ace Hasan", he said.

In addition, there are several other names to replace Zainudin Amali as Menpora. The cadres in particular came from Golkar. Several names are said to have the potential to fill the Menpora chair, such as Dito Ariotedjo and Ilham Permana.

According to observers, those are the criteria for a candidate for Menpora to replace Zainudin Amali. Visit VOI.ID for other interesting information.