Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidates In 2024 Are Both In Jokowi's Cabinet, KPU: Satirely Reduced

3 Candidate-Cawapres candidate pairs at the KPU (Photo: DOK Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy'ari believes that political tension in the 2024 presidential election contestation competition will not be so heated. Because, according to him, some candidates for the presidential election are ministers in the cabinet of President Joko Widodo's government. This refers to Prabowo Subianto who is the Minister of Defense and Mahfud MD who is the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menkopolhukam). "We believe that the election participants of the presidential candidates for vice president are friends and all are friends. Even in the same cabinet in the same period," said Hasyim during the Declaration of the 2024 Election Peace Campaign at the KPU RI office, Central Jakarta, Monday, November 27. In addition, Hasyim mentioned that other presidential candidates are also currently or have held positions as regional heads. They are Anies Baswedan who is the former Governor of DKI Jakarta for the 2017-2022 period, Ganjar Pranowo as the former Governor of Central Java for the 2013-2023 period, and Gibran Rakabuming Raka who is still the Mayor of Solo. "Both of them have and know exactly the programs in one period, both of them have experience as regional heads, which in essence he is all active in the government," explained Hasyim. "Thus, insinuating also, I think it will definitely decrease slightly because both know their weak points and their respective strong points," he continued. The KPU has determined that the election campaign period will take place from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024, while the voting is scheduled to be held on February 14, 2024. Today, the three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates and political parties participating in the 2024 General Election read out their commitment to campaign peacefully. The reading of the declaration was guided by the Chairman of the Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy'ari in the courtyard of the Indonesian KPU Office, Jalan Imam Bonjol, Central Jakarta. After reading the declaration, all election participants, both the presidential-cawapres candidate pair and the leadership of the political party, put their signature on the plaque containing the narrative of the declaration of the 2024 election peace campaign.

The following is the contents of the script for the declaration of a peace campaign for the 2024 General Election: 1. Realize direct, general, free, secret, and fair elections. 2. Carry out a campaign for elections that are safe, orderly, peaceful, with integrity, without hoaxes, without politicization of SARA, and without money politics. 3. Implement the election campaign based on the applicable laws and regulations.