Gus Miftah Called Anies Criticism With Ethics Issues

The preacher Miftah Maulana Habiburrahman or Gus Miftah. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The preacher Miftah Maulana Habiburrahman or Gus Miftah in an online media website is said to have criticized the candidate for the Change Coalition, Anies Baswedan.

Gus Miftah is said to have compared Anies' ethics with Prabowo Subianto. He considers Anies' attitude of breaking promises to be more unethical than Prabowo Subianto, who accepted Gibran as his vice presidential candidate.

"Try to be more unethical, when Mas Prabowo accepted the Constitutional Court's decision by making Mas Gibran a vice presidential candidate, with Mas Anies running as a presidential candidate who was previously appointed governor by Pak Prabowo to spend hundreds of billions then Mas Anies promised not to run as President if Pak Prabowo was President," said Gus Miftah when he told the story in front of village kiai throughout Kediri who gathered at the Al Kamal Kunir Islamic Boarding School, Wonodadi District, Blitar Regency, "wrote the website.

Currently, according to Gus Miftah, Prabowo is reluctant to counterattack Anies and Ganjar because he does not want to embarrass the 2 presidential candidates in front of the Indonesian people.

"Mr. Prabowo, we gave the opportunity, we gave the data to attack Mas Anies and Ganjar again, who during the debate were very tendentious with Pak Prabowo. But Mr. Prabowo answered don't worry, we don't have to embarrass them in front of the Indonesian people," said Gus Miftah, who at that time joined Prabowo during the presidential candidate debate.

In fact, he continued, if he wanted, Prabowo had that opportunity. For example when talking about ethics. Prabowo could bring up Anies' political ethics.

As is known, Anies had promised not to run as a presidential candidate if the Gerindra chairman stepped forward. However, Prabowo did or did not bring it up in the slightest.

Confirmed again related to that, Gus Miftah in his written message wrote that he only answered the question: "Kyai, why did Prabowo not reply to Anies Baswedan during a presidential debate about ethics?"

Gus Miftah replied that there was a team that gave input to reply to Anies. "But Prabowo doesn't want to do that, because Prabowo respects Anies."