Undip Political Analyst: PDIP Cadre Will Solidly Win Ganjar Pranowo In The 2024 Presidential Election

PDI-P General Chair Megawati Soekarnoputri pinned a cap on the 2024 presidential candidate proposed by PDI Perjuangan Ganjar Pranowo. (Between/Monang)

JAKARTA - Political analyst from Diponegoro University (Undip) Semarang Yuwanto PhD assesses that PDI-P cadres will solidly win Ganjar Pranowo who has been appointed as a presidential candidate from the party.

"For PDIP, I think in terms of compliance and obedience of cadres, administrators, and sympathizers are strong against the general chairman," he said in Semarang, Saturday, responding to Ganjar Pranowo's presidential candidacy.

Although previously there had been pros and cons within PDIP against Ganjar, he said, once Megawati Soekarnoputri decided, all cadres would be solid.

According to him, PDIP has so far had a political machine with strong, simultaneous and synergistic resilience as driving the party's steps, supported by compliance and obedience of cadres.

"There are pros and cons (with the figure of Ganjar as a presidential candidate). However, I see him not among the PDIP. For all levels of PDIP, from the center to the lower level it is perpendicular," he said, quoted by Antara.

Instead, he said, pros and cons will appear in the community, especially as a result of the Central Java Governor's statement rejecting the Israeli national team to play in the U-20 World Cup if Indonesia as the host.

He explained that Ganjar's statement rejecting the Israeli national team had a long tail by moving away from millennials or the younger generation who had previously respected his figure.

"However, I think this depends on how Ganjar and his success team can convince young people again," said the lecturer at the Department of Politics and Science of the Undip FISIP Government.

Football, he admitted, did have extraordinary sensitivity so many blamed Ganjar when FIFA finally canceled Indonesia as the host of the 2023 U-20 World Cup.

"The electability had dropped. However, I think this can be substituted with more constructive and prospective things in the future depending on what Ganjar does," he concluded.

In addition, he said, the presence of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, is also important in the announcement of Ganjar's candidacy by PDIP, which is important as a form of support, as well as to consolidate strength.