Don't Want To Participate In Mixing The Termination Of Videotron Anies, DKI Provincial Government: Privately Managed

Videotron LED featuring presidential candidate number 1, Anies Baswedan on the videotron board in front of Graha Mandiri, Central Jakarta.

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has opened its voice over the unilateral termination of the LED videotron featuring presidential candidate number 1, Anies Baswedan on the videotron board in front of Graha Mandiri, Central Jakarta.

Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Communication, Information and Statistics Agency (Kominfotik) Sigit Widjatmoko admitted that he did not want to interfere in this problem. Sigit emphasized that the videotron point at that location is managed by the private sector.

"Regarding videotrons at Graha Mandiri, it is managed by the private sector. All content broadcast policies, including raising and decreasing are entirely the domain of the manager, not from us Diskominfotik," said Sigit in his statement, Wednesday, January 17.

Sigit explained that the task of DKI's Diskominfotik is only limited to coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating the information broadcast of local government programs in videotron LED media.

This is stated in Governor Regulation (Pergub) Number 148 of 2017 and Governor Regulation Number 100 of 2021, Articles 36 and 37.

Previously, a video circulated showing a videotron in front of the Bekasi Metropolitan Grand Hotel and in front of Graha Mandiri, Jakarta. The modern billboard ad was initiated specifically by Anies volunteers, Anies Bubble (@aniesbubble) in collaboration with the Olppaemi Project (@olpproject).

The video, which was advertised from the donation, shows Anies Baswedan's video edited by South Korea's oppa-oppa. However, not until a day later, the ad was suddenly stopped.

Olppaemi projects through his X account did not explain the reason why the ad was taken down. He said the condition was out of control. Olppaemi project said the ad should be broadcast for one week starting from January 15-21 January 2024.

Responding to this, Anies Baswedan suggested that the case of unilateral termination of the LED videotron made by fans be reported to the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu).

The videotron point that promoted Anies was installed in front of Grand Metropolitan, Bekasi and in front of Graha Mandiri, Central Jakarta. According to Anies, the decline in advertising has become evidence of alleged election violations.

"If that's the rule, so just report it to Bawaslu. The rules are not allowed to interfere with each other, right? As long as there is a violation of his name," said Anies in Makassar, Wednesday, January 17.

According to Anies, this unilateral action to stop advertising with perpetrators who are still mysterious injures the principles of democracy in Indonesia because they do not respect the freedom of expression of others.

"When someone puts up a videotron for pair number 1, they are respected. That's part of democracy, it's a test of democratic commitment, one of which is the readiness to respect different things. If he's not ready to respect the different ones, then he's not ready to do democracy," he explained.