Ganjar Pranowo Story Of The Birth Of The Citizenship Law, Remove Discrimination Of Minority Citizens

Ganjar Pranowo emphasized that there is no discrimination in Indonesia. (IST)

The 2024 presidential candidate (readpres), Ganjar Pranowo, played a major role in eliminating discrimination against minority citizens or Chinese descendants. While serving as a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Ganjar gave birth to Law No. 12 of 2006 concerning Citizenship.

At that time the citizenship rule was still discriminating minority citizens. Law 62/1958 distinguishes Indonesian citizens and descendants.

Ganjar, who passed the 2004 Legislative Election, expressed this anxiety. Together with his friends in the DPR, he dressed the birth of Law 12/2006 on Citizenship.

At that time, the emergence of this law was greeted with joy. Because this law carries the principles of equality, there is no discrimination, upholding human rights, gender equality, and equal rights between citizens. There is no more separation of Indonesian citizens and descendants. There are only Indonesian citizens and foreign nationals.

The law also strengthens the status of children in three vulnerable groups. Namely, children from legally mixed marriages of foreign parents and Indonesia, children outside of the legal marriage of foreign and Indonesian parents, as well as the confirmation of the status of Indonesian citizens, children born in Indonesia, even though their parents' status is unknown or dead.

"This law confirms that children with vulnerable status, for example, these three examples will be recognized, protected, and treated as Indonesian citizens," said Ganjar Pranowo.

The story of the birth of the Citizenship Law was conveyed by Ganjar at the Public Lecture 'The Role of Youth in the Future of Indonesian Politics' at the Parahyangan University of Katholic Bandung, Wednesday, October 11.

Ganjar told this as an example of how young people can get involved in the system, to change people's social conditions for the better.

"There are two ways to get involved, in a system like mine by entering the DPR and producing the law or outside the system by being a government supervisor," he said.

Both according to Ganjar are good. As long as it is carried out seriously, it is committed to the nation and state, as well as integrity and partiality to the interests of the people.

During his tenure as Governor of Central Java, Ganjar also really cared about equality. Evidently, the gender inequality index (IKG) in Central Java decreased. Central Java IKG in 2022 was 0.371 down 0.006 points compared to 2021 which was 0.377. This is mainly due to the dimension of reproductive health and labor market dimensions.

The public lecture was attended by more than a thousand students. They seemed enthusiastic to listen to the explanation of Ganjar Pranowo's ideas for almost two hours. The committee initially invited three presidential candidates, namely Anies Baswedan, Ganjar Pranowo, and Prabowo Subianto. However, only Ganjar fulfilled the invitation.