Challenge Ganjar, Prabowo And Anies To Campaign At Campus, BEM UI: We Are Ready To Join The Contents Of Your Thoughts

Illustration of BEM UI. (Twitter @BEMUI_official)

JAKARTA - The University of Indonesia (UI) Student Executive Board (BEM) challenged the presidential candidates (candidates) Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan for the 2024 election campaign on their campus. The challenge of the debate was after the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the permit of government and education facilities as a place for the 2024 election campaign.

"If you really have the guts, BEM UI invites all presidential candidates/presidential candidates to attend UI because we are ready to skin everything in your minds," said BEM UI Chair Melki Sedek Huang in a written statement, Monday, August 21.

BEM UI views that the capability and competence of prospective state leaders is not a fan of campaign stages.

"We do not want the future of this nation to be hung on candidate leaders who only focus on campaigns, imaging, and poor lip service. We need leaders who are smart and in favor of the people," said Melki.

Melki said that the current campaign is booming. According to him, the younger generation is tired of seeing many campaigns with minimal substance and lip service alone. Especially if it is added to the unnecessary identity and image game.

"The ability of educational institutions to invite potential leaders must be used to test the substance and brain content of each prospective leader, instead of being a field for finding the face of campus leaders and playing with the eyes of intellectuals and politicians," he said.

The Constitutional Court allows government facilities and education but prohibits places of worship as campaign locations based on a lawsuit against Law Number 7 of 2017 which was granted by the Constitutional Court on August 15, 2023.

The decision was then summarized in the General Election Commission Regulation (PKPU) Number 15 of 2023 concerning Election Campaigns.