Meeting Puan After Debate, Anies Silenced About The Contents Of The Discussion

Archives. Puan Maharani as the Speaker of the House of Representatives with Anies Baswedan while serving as Governor of DKI Jakarta watched the Formula E race at JIEC, Jakarta, Saturday, June 2022. (ANTARA-Arif Ariadi)

JAKARTA - Presidential candidate (candidate) number 3, Anies Baswedan kept his chat content a secret with the Chairperson of the PDI-P (PDIP) DPP Puan Maharani after participating in the third debate of the 2024 presidential election in Jakarta, Sunday, January 7. "Yes, the story will be kept secret," said Anies when answering reporters' questions in Gorontalo Province, Monday, January 8, confiscated by Antara. Anies explained that he together with the vice presidential candidate Muhaimin Iskandar alias Cak Imin, only focused on realizing everything in the debate location. "After the debate we shake hands with everything there, yes if it is not there (around the debate area, ed), I don't shake hands, because we automatically want to find where, so we welcome everything there including Ms. Puan," he said. Regarding the opportunity to form a coalition with PDIP going forward, Anies admitted that he had not thought about it in that direction, because he was still focused on increasing the existing support for the current Anies-Muhaimin (AMIN) pair. He believes, the enthusiasm for change is getting bigger, so he is optimistic that not only one or two parties will join, but millions of Indonesians will join the movement. "Yes, basically all opportunities are always there, but we are now not there, our concentration is increasing support for change, after that we just talk about the next phase," he said.