Prabowo Responds To Anies About Land Attacks In Debate: He Wants To Make People Hate Me

Presidential candidate number 2 Prabowo Subianto gave a political speech when attending the Prabowo-Gibran volunteer consolidation event throughout Riau Province at the Pekanbaru Sports Center (GOR) PHOTO/Galih Pradipta

Presidential candidate number 2 Prabowo Subianto said that the land brought up by presidential candidate number 1 Anies Baswedan during the third presidential candidate debate held by the KPU on Sunday (7/1) night was the right to use business (HGU) and state property.

"He (Anies) is upset, is there a HGU? Business rights, building rights, rights to use. That's state land, brothers, people's land, nation's land," Prabowo said in front of his volunteers while attending the Consolidation of the Prabowo-Gibran Volunteers in Riau Province at the Pekanbaru Youth Sports Hall, reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 9.

According to Prabowo, the land is better for him to manage than to be controlled by foreigners.

He also mentioned that when the government needed the land, he immediately handed it over.

Prabowo also said Anies was wrong. The land, he said, was not 340,000 hectares.

"Yesterday I was also completely wrong, not 340,000 hectares, approaching 500,000 hectares. He maubikinrakkyat hated me," said the Defense Minister.

Prabowo also said that he had submitted the land to the state two years ago.

"Mr President, if this land is needed for food barns, use my HGU land. Use it. I am ready. And we are working on it," he said.

According to Prabowo, Anies had no good intentions when he made his statement during the debate two days ago.

"So, the intentions are not good. The data is wrong," he said.

Previously, Anies Baswedan admitted that he was sad with the condition that most TNI members did not own official houses, but instead Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto had a land area of 340,000 hectares.

Anies said that this condition is very ironic because it illustrates that the welfare of TNI members has not yet been realized to support the national defense and security system.

"When the army (TNI) is more than half without official housing, while the minister Pak Jokowi (Prabowo) has more than 340,000 hectares," Anies said in a presidential debate organized by the Indonesian KPU at Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Sunday (7/1) night.