PKB Will Imitate Anies-Selepet Imin's Desak Into A 2024 Pilkada Campaign Style

Wakekjen PKB Syaiful Huda saat memberikan keterangan pers di Kantor DPP PKB Jakarta, Senin (4/3/2024). (ANTARA/Fauzi Lamboka)

Deputy Secretary General of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Syaiful Huda said his party would adapt the campaign style for presidential and vice-presidential candidates number 1, Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar in the 2024 presidential election to be imitated in the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada campaign. The campaign models that will be imitated are the Anies and Slepet Imin Desak events. In the event, Anies and Muhaimin held a dialogue with the community, and answered all questions regarding the ideas and campaign programs brought by the election participants. "PKB will make the Slepet Imin forum and Urge Anies to become a new role model in the election campaign," said Huda at the PKB DPP office, Cikini, Central Jakarta, Monday, March 4. According to Huda, the Slepet Imin forum and Desak Anies need to be continued in the political contestation of regional heads because these activities open up space for the community to directly test the competence of these candidate leaders. "We want the elections in the future to be colored by public participation, not by public mobilization. We believe that forums such as Slepet Imin and Desak Anies that have been well organized in the presidential election are extraordinary public participation, where there is an idea complaint," explained Huda. "Everything that is the agenda for change is directly tested by the public directly. This is at the same time to stop the model of mass mobilization which is relatively not educating our political future in the future," continued the Chairman of Commission X DPR RI. Furthermore, Huda emphasized that his party will continue to carry out the agenda of change in the implementation of the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada. The narrative of change is the idea brought by Anies-Muhaimin, the presidential and vice presidential candidates carried by PKB, NasDem, and PKS. "The agenda for changes that have been the main agenda in the presidential election will continue to be encouraged in the implementation of the 2024 simultaneous regional elections which in stages and have even begun in front of our eyes," he said. According to Huda, the strategy for change in the 2024 Pilkada also needs to be used in regional-level political contestation. Because, this is a strategic step to solve the challenges of development and equality in people's lives. "The challenges we face are quite difficult in the future and we believe that one of the agendas besides the presidential election that can maintain this change agenda is leadership at the provincial, district/city levels throughout Indonesia," said Huda.

For information, the KPU has set a schedule for the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Head Elections on 27 November 2024. As for the registration schedule for regional head candidates on 27-29 August, the determination of candidate pairs on 22 September, as well as the implementation of the campaign from 25 September-23 November 2024.