Ridwan Kamil Is Imposed To Advance In The Gubernatorial Election, DKI Golkar Alludes To Newcomers Don't Damage Party Hierarchies

Candidates For Cagub Jakarta, Starting From Ridwan Kamil To Ahmad Sahroni. (VOI Video graphics Team)

JAKARTA - The Regional Management Board (DPD) of the DKI Jakarta Golkar Party has opened its voice regarding the two names options that his party will carry in the 2024 DKI Jakarta Governor and Deputy Governor Election (Pilgub). The two cadres who will "compete" to be promoted by Golkar as candidates for the Governor of DKI are the Chairman of the DKI Golkar Party DPD Ahmed Zaki Iskandar and the Deputy General Chairperson (Waketum) for the Collection of Voters and Winning of the Golkar election Ridwan Kamil. Secretary of DPD Golkar DKI Jakarta Basri Baco said, Ridwan Kamil is still relatively new in party membership. Moreover, when he ran for the 2018 West Java gubernatorial election, Ridwan Kamil was not promoted by Golkar. Meanwhile, Zaki has served as a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives from the Golkar faction since 2009. "Do not let the newcomers even damage the hierarchy that has been in Golkar. The interests of the people and parties must be above personal interests," Baco said in a short message, Tuesday, February 27. According to Baco, the Central Leadership Council (DPP) of the Golkar Party should have brought a cadre who had been active in the party for a long time to run as a Cagub of DKI Jakarta in the 2024 Pilkada "What Golkar carries must be whose DNA is really Golkar and he is proven to be staying in Golkar in any circumstances. So, it's not cans," he said. The Golkar Party will still pit the name of the chairman of the DKI Jakarta Golkar Party DPD, Ahmed Zaki Iskandar and the Deputy Chairperson of Golkar, Ridwan Kamil (RK) to run as governor in the 2024 DKI Jakarta Pilkada. The reason is, the Golkar Party has recommended the two names to fight to win the DKI 1 seat. "Golkar has given the task of DKI Jakarta to 2 names, namely first Mr. Ridwan Kamil, the second Mr. Zaki Iskandar. Both of them have the same potential to be nominated as candidates for governor of DKI Jakarta. It's just that in the end they have to choose one," said the chairman of the Golkar Party DPP, Ace Hasan Syadzily at the DPR Building, Senayan.

Ace explained that internally the Golkar party had a mechanism to determine who would be officially nominated in the Pilkada. Therefore, Golkar gave Zaki and RK the flexibility to continue to increase their respective electability. "And after that, Golkar will conduct a survey of the two names. If there are two of them who have high enough potential to be nominated as governor of DKI Jakarta, then that will be chosen by Golkar," explained Ace.