Jokowi Concerning PSI's Voice Skyrockets Suddenly: Party Affairs

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) together with the Chairman and Cadres of the PSI Party (@psi_id)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) does not want to talk much about the skyrocketing votes of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) according to the General Election Commission (KPU) Recapitulation Information System (Sirekap). He asked that this matter be asked directly to the party led by Kaesang Pangarep, his youngest son.

"That's party business. Ask the party," Jokowi told reporters at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base, Jakarta, Monday, March 4.

All parties were also asked by Jokowi to ask the election organizers about the significant increase in PSI votes. "Ask the KPU," he said.

Until now PSI's votes are still increasing. Based on the KPU's real count data published on Monday, March 4 at 10.25 WIB, the party bearing the rose symbol has gained 2,404,212 or 3.14 percent of the vote.

This significant addition of votes is in the spotlight of many parties, one of which is the Chairman of the Advisory Council of the United Development Party (PPP) Romahurmuziy or Rommy. He asked for the inflating operation to be stopped.

Initially, he admitted that he heard that the officers had carried out an operation before the voting began. They targeted election organizers in the regions and targeted PSI to get 50 thousand votes in each district/city in Java Island and 20 thousand votes outside Java Island.

"This is done by using and financing a network of certain youth organizations that have been led by one of the ministers to mobilize PSI votes (by way, red) collosing images," Rommy said as quoted from his written statement, Monday, March 4.

"At least that's what I heard from one of the activists who was given direct financing by the authorities before the election," he continued.

However, this method did not work because the quick count said that the party created by President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) youngest son, Kaesang Pangarep, did not qualify for parliament. Thus, there are two other ways that are carried out, namely moving the party's smaller votes and invalid votes, causing strangeness in the KPU Sirekap.

This oddity, continued Rommy, was also captured by a number of surveyors such as Yunarto Wijaya and Burhanudin Muhtadi. In fact, the last name had made a graph on his X or Twitter account to describe the significant increase in PSI votes.

"To the extent that this is trending on Twitter as the Wrong Input Party. If voter participation is assumed to be the same as 2019, then the valid votes for each TPS = 81.69 percent x 300 votes = 245 votes per TPS. That means the percentage of PSI votes = 173/245 = 71 percent, and all other parties only 29 percent," he said.

"A very unreasonable number considering PSI as a new party without rooted infrastructure and most of the Indonesian candidates I monitor for minimal socialization to voters," said Romy.