Anies Believes Many People Contribute To His Campaign Fund

Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan in North Jakarta, Wednesday, December 20 evening (Diah Ayu/VOI)

Presidential candidate number 1, Anies Baswedan believes that there will be many people who will give contributions to increase the amount of campaign funds with vice presidential candidate Muhaimin Iskandar.

This is in response to the nominal initial campaign fund in the 2024 presidential election which is the lowest of two competing presidential and vice presidential candidates.

"Hopefully (the nominal campaign funds will increase). This is indeed everywhere my friends move to joint ventures. Joint ventures are really everywhere," said Anies in North Jakarta, Wednesday, December 20 evening.

In addition, Anies said that many people in various regions provide support and participate in campaigning for presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the Change Coalition by putting up homemade banners.

"If you pay attention, there are so many residents who prepare their own banners, prepare their own billboards. That's what makes us even more excited that this is not a top down, but this is a movement that involves all the people," explained Anies.

For information, the KPU released the initial report of the campaign funds (LADK) for the three presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the 2024 General Election on the infopemilu.go.id page. The initial funds for the Anies-Cak Imin campaign amounted to IDR 1 billion. The funds only came from the presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

Then, the initial funds for the Prabowo-Gibran campaign were recorded at the largest, namely Rp31.43 billion. The sources of funds, as much as Rp2 billion from candidate pairs, Rp600 million from political parties or coalitions of political parties in the form of goods, and Rp28.84 billion from a combination of political parties in the form of services.

Meanwhile, the initial funds for the Ganjar-Mahfud campaign amounted to Rp. 23.32 billion. The nominal consists of a candidate pair of Rp. 100 million in the form of money.

Then, there are also sources from political parties or coalitions of political parties in the form of money worth Rp2.95 billion, as well as donations from other individuals in the form of Rp1.6 million. Ganjar-Mahfud also received donations from other companies and/or non-governmental entities worth Rp20.32 billion.