'Beautiful' Promises 3 Candidates On The 12th Day Of The Campaign Period, Hopefully Don't Forget When Elected Later

Screenshot - Presidential Election 2024 ballot design. (ANTARA/Donny Aditra)

JAKARTA - Three pairs of candidates (paslon) for president and vice president have entered the 12th day of the campaign period for the 2024 presidential election. Since November 28 when the General Election Commission (KPU) officially opened the campaign, each pair began to introduce themselves, spread vision and mission to 'be sweet' promises to the public if elected. Of course, every promise made by the candidate pair, both number one Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar, number two Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming and three Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, to attract public sympathy and make choices when voting arrives. So what are the sweet promises made by these three candidate pairs? The public must record this promise as part of a track record and be held accountable when elected later. Here's the list. 1. Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar - Bringing Justice The pair number 1 Anies-Cak Imin wanted to carry out a justice mission when they first campaigned in Tanah Merah, North Jakarta last November 28. He promised to bring justice as he did when he was governor in Jakarta. "Our endeavor is to bring justice, from the Red Land starting for Jakarta. What we are trying is still the same, we want to carry a mission that, when in Jakarta the mission brings justice, now we bring the mission to the national level," said Anies Baswedan, last November 28. - Lowering Food Prices Furthermore, Anies-Cak Imin promised to reduce a number of basic needs during his campaign in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, December 5. "Currently, the price of basic necessities is expensive, the price of fertilizer is expensive, the cost of education is expensive. If you want change, give me the authority to do it," said Anies. - Reduce Hajj Fees and Increase Quota In campaigning in Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan, December 5, he also promised to reduce the cost of Hajj and increase the hajj quota. "We are talking about that, one is about reducing the cost of Hajj, so that our Hajj costs are equivalent to other countries," said Anies in Banjarmasin, December 5. "The second is increasing the hajj quota, so the price is lowered, the quota is added," he continued. Anies promised to add quotas from 10,000 pilgrims to 20,000 to 30,000 pilgrims. -Build Railroads In Kalimantan Then Anies promised to build a railway line in Kalimantan. Anies said this project would cooperate with former Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan who was also successful at PT KAI while serving as the main director of PT KAI. "Banjarbaru and Banjarmasin have a fairly high intensity of traffic, actually this is one area that we may need to build a railway network between these two regions," explained Anies. - Empower MSMEs Meanwhile, Vice Presidential Candidate Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin promised to encourage the empowerment of MSMEs when they visited the culinary center in Bungkul Park, Surabaya, November 28. "We have a platform as well as a vision and mission, MSMEs become empowered from various approaches, ranging from capital affirmations, access assistance, increasing the capability and capacity of MSMEs," said Cak Imin. 2. Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming -Promise To Eradicate Starvation And Lack Of Nutrition Prabowo promised to alleviate poverty in Indonesia, one way to alleviate poverty is to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. - Downstream Industry Presidential Candidate Prabowo said he would continue the downstream program currently being boosted by Jokowi's government. Downstreaming is a sustainable economic transformation process where commodity-based industrialization policies are of high value, towards a more complex economic structure. According to him, downstreaming can become a sovereign country and strengthen the economy. - Islamic Boarding School Endowment Fund In his political campaign at Asshiddiqiyah 2 Tangerang Islamic Boarding School on December 4, the Vice Presidential Candidate number 2 Gibran promised to create an Endowment Fund for Islamic boarding schools. According to Gibran, this program of the Endowment Fund for Islamic Boarding Schools is to improve the quality of students graduates so that they can compete in facing the industrial revolution 5.0. -Economics level 7 percent Prabowo's National Campaign Team said Prabowo Gibran could encourage economic growth to reach 7 percent. 3. Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD - Promise to Create 17 Million jobs Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates number 3 Ganjar-Mahfud promised to create 17 million new jobs. The target of creating these 17 new jobs is to reduce the number of unemployed in Indonesia. - Build Free Fast Internet In Schools Presidential Candidate number 3 Ganjar Pranowo also promised to build a free fast internet at school. "I want to create programs, fast internet, free of charge, even for school children,” said Ganjar in Balikpapan, December 7. "The internet is free for schools and the acceleration of infrastructure development including internet speed. This is important so that the creative industry grows and children can get good access to the internet so that digital literacy will be better," he continued. - Continue IKN Project During a visit to IKN Nusantara, Ganjar promised to continue the IKN development project initiated by Jokowi. "From the start I was consistent, that something that had been made and agreed upon must be implemented, this IKN is a law," said Ganjar in North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan, December 7. - Poverty to the level of 2.5 percent Presidential and vice presidential candidates number 3 also promise to solve poverty, down at 2.5 percent. He is committed to paying primary attention to the poor and neglected children. - Encourage Banking Loans To Minimum 35 Percent In order to create a business environment and MSMEs, Ganjar-Mahfud targets the minimum allocation of bank credit to be devoted to MSME players. "Ensuring an allocation of banking credit of at least 35 percent for cooperatives, MSMEs, and start-ups followed by training and facilitation of market access," said Ganjar.