Anies Criticizes Jokowi Food Estate And IKN Programs, Observers

Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan/DOK SPECIAL

Presidential Candidate number 1 Anies Baswedan criticized Jokowi's two programs, namely food estate or food barn and the capital city of Nusantara (IKN).

Anies assessed that the food estate did not improve the welfare of farmers because the production of the program was controlled centrally.

Anies then said that the certainty of the proceeds from the food estate could only be enjoyed by those in the food barn area.

To replace the food estate program, Anies offers another solution, namely contact farming which has been run by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government as a national program for Indonesia.

According to him, the contract farming program that has been run by the DKI Provincial Government can empower farmers.

Meanwhile, the relocation of the state capital IKN, according to Anies, will create new inequality, not even equity.

A political observer from the University of Indonesia (UI) Cecep Hidayat assessed that Anies' criticism led to the assumption that Anies acted without talking alone, aka lip service.

"This food estate has also been criticized by the Secretary General of PDIP Hasto Krisyanto, the failure of the Minister of Agriculture which was then brought to food security," said Cecep, Wednesday, December 6.

"Why is it being criticized immediately now, the evaluation from Jokowi and also other ministers said it took a long time and it immediately succeeded," continued Cecep.

Likewise with the relocation of the nation's capital, which is considered to require very large costs and still limited foreign investors.

"Indeed, it was echoed several years ago. But until now there have been no foreign investors who want to invest there, until Jokowi to America there are no foreign investors," he said.

Cecep assessed that later Anies could make changes according to his campaign promise.

"Yes, it's possible, this is the important thing that Anies is different, there are differentiations or changes, maybe in practice it only changes a little bit, like Contract Farming," said Cecep.