KPU Will Evaluate Supporting Actions For Paslon Acungkan Tiga Jari During Debate

Three presidential candidates in the third debate of the 2024 presidential election at Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Sunday, January 7 evening. (ANTARA PHOTO-Aditya Pradana Putra)

The General Election Commission (KPU) will evaluate the action of supporting candidate pairs (paslon) care-cawapres Ganjar-Mahfud MD which raised three fingers when Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan spoke during the debate.

"Yes, I will ask for an evaluation with the candidate pair team," said Chairman of the Indonesian KPU Hasyim Asy'ari after the third debate of the 2024 presidential election at Istora Senayan, Sunday, January 7 evening.

Hasyim said the action of supporting candidate pair number 3 will be discussed in an evaluation meeting with the candidate pair team. He will also ask for clarification on the action.

"Yes, we will discuss it with the candidate pair team during the evaluation of several things earlier, what happened in the debate situation. Is it in the debate situation or the situation of the supporters," he said.

Previously, the supporters of Ganjar-Mahfud raised three fingers when Prabowo Subianto's presidential candidate number 2 responded to Ganjar's question.

The moment occurred when Prabowo admitted that he agreed with Ganjar's answer. The supporters of Ganjar were also seen brandishing three fingers.

"How come I agree a lot with Pak Ganjar, yes. If it's true, it makes sense, I agree. When you talk, talk, say ya kumaha," said Prabowo.

Not only that, Ganjar-Mahfud supporters also did the same thing when the presidential candidate number 1 Anies Baswedan gave a speech. However, they raised their fingers more when Prabowo gave a speech.

The Indonesian KPU held the Third Debate of Presidential Candidates for the 2024 General Election which was attended by three presidential candidates at Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Sunday (7/1) at 19.00 WIB.

The debate, which was followed by the presidential candidate for the second time, raised the theme of defense, security, international relations, globalization, geopolitical and foreign politics.

Previously, the first debate for the 2024 General Election presidential candidate had been held at the KPU Office, Jakarta, on December 12, 2023. The second debate of the 2024 election vice presidential candidate was held at the JCC Senayan Assembly Hall, Jakarta, on December 22, 2023.

The series of debates for presidential/vice presidential candidates is scheduled to continue two more times, namely January 21, 2024 and February 4, 2024.

Previously, the Indonesian KPU had determined the participants of the 2024 Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections (Pilpres), namely the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar pair number 1, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka number 2, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md. serial number 3.

The KPU has also set a campaign period from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024, then the voting schedule will be on February 14, 2024.