Susi Pudjiastuti Answer Netizen Comments After Retweeting Indonesian Government Debt

Former Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Susi Pudjiastuti. (Photo: Twitter @susipudjiastuti)

JAKARTA - Former Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) Susi Pudjiastuti sprayed the citizens on her official Twitter account, @susipudjiastuti. This followed the comments of netizens when Susi retweeted the news explaining the Indonesian government's foreign debt.

Susi does not accept if the news retweet is considered to criticize or side with groups that have been vocal in the Joko Widodo (Jokowi) administration. On the contrary, the news provided a complete explanation of the debt facts that touched IDR 5,803.2 trillion.

"In the past, why didn't we provide a solution so that the state debt did not increase so that the new former minister was in debt. A sign of hurt or jealousy because he was not being looked at again or because of frustration from the business of bankruptcy", tweeted the @Endalusy account, quoted Thursday, February 18.

"When Mam Susi was in Pak Jokowi's cabinet, there are no comments like this, but since he was not in the cabinet he became grumpy? So far, did you wear a mask, did you just open it after the heat?", tweet account @Sugit38368578

Having received attacks from netizens like this, Susi denied and asked them to first read the article in question. Susi did not criticize the government for its foreign debt position.

"Read the tweet article until it's finished, after reading it, just talk so that you don't feel embarrassed after your bad talk", replied Susi.

"The article I tweeted was read to completion, then I talked badly, later when I finished tweeting the article, the value was positive or negative. Read, read first, it's finished, don't be ashamed of yourself".

"Read, read, read, do not understand that the news is positive to the government. Read it again. Read it again. If you do not understand it 10 times, try eating fish first. Keep reading again. If you eat a lot of fish after reading, surely you will say oh Mrs. Susie is also good anyway", said Susi.

Read read read .. do not understand the contents of the news that compass is positive to the government. Read it again, read it again. If you read 10x you don't understand it .. try eating fish first. Read on again. If you eat a lot of fish after reading, you will definitely say ohhh Mrs. Susie is good anyway👆

- Susi Pudjiastuti (@susipudjiastuti) February 17, 2021

In retweeting the article, Susi did not provide any captions or comments.

Bank Indonesia (BI) reported that Indonesia's Foreign Debt (ULN) at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020 was recorded at US $ 417.5 billion or equivalent to IDR 5.803 trillion or approaching the psychological level of IDR 6,000 trillion.

Head of the BI Communication Department Erwin Haryono said the figure was contributed by the public sector (government and central bank) amounting to the US $ 209.2 billion and the private sector (including BUMN) US $ 208.3 billion.

"This foreign debt grew 3.5 percent on an annual basis but decreased from the previous quarter which amounted to 3.9 percent. The slowdown is mainly due to the decline in the private sector”, he said in a press statement, Monday, February 15.