2024 Election Contestant Asked By Vice President Ma'ruf To Finalize Strategy During Open Campaigns, Don't Make Noise

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin ANTARA/HO-Secretariat Vice President)

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin appealed to all contestants for the 2024 General Election to maintain the commitment of the integrity pact in keeping the 2024 General Election peaceful, especially during the open campaign agenda which will run from January 21 to February 10, 2024. "I hope we both have an agreement, have an integrity pact, that everything will run peacefully, cheerfully in the contest. Because indeed this will begin to mobilize the masses," said Ma'ruf at a press conference at Universitas Brawijaya Malang, East Java, Antara, Friday, January 19. He appealed to all 2024 election contestants to finalize the campaign strategy by maintaining the conduciveness of their respective mass movements. Strategy is important to anticipate commotion. "That could be, from those who are holding it, they are intercepted by others, there will be conflict," he said. According to Ma'ruf, if all parties are able to maintain a commitment to guarding peaceful elections and happy spaces, anything that has the potential to trigger inter-mass friction can be prevented. In addition to the election contestants, Vice President Ma'ruf also appealed to the organizers and security forces involved to be able to provide education to the public to actively contribute to preventing conflicts in the field.

"Also from the security forces of all those involved, so I ask all parties involved in this contestation issue, organizers, then those who contest and mass supporters and security forces, I think they both provide an understanding of educating the public not to cause mass conflict in the field," he said.