Kaesang Say Thank You To The Voters Even Though PSI Failed To Go To Senayan

PSI General Chair Kaesang Pangarep together with PSI Secretary General Raja Juli Antoni at the PSI DPP Office, Jakarta, Thursday (21/3/2024) evening. BETWEEN/Good Ahmad Rizaldi

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) Kaesang Pangarep thanked the people who had chosen PSI even though his party did not pass the parliamentary threshold aka failed to go to the Senayan DPR, Jakarta.

Kaesang said that based on the determination of the results of the 2024 General Election by the KPU, PSI was only able to obtain 4,260,169 votes for the Legislative Election (Pileg). In percentage terms, according to him, this number is only 2.81 percent of the total national valid votes.

"What is certain is that I will not qualify for Senayan. But I represent my friends, I would like to thank my friends from the community," said Kaesang at the PSI DPP office, Jakarta, Thursday, March 21.

With this acquisition, Kaesang admitted that he would evaluate his party to be better, especially to face the 2029 election. According to him, parties that are identical to the younger generation will continue to struggle in their own way.

Meanwhile, PSI Secretary General Raja Juli Antoni said that in this election PSI experienced an increase in votes even though it had not been able to pass. In the previous election, PSI's vote acquisition in the legislative election was only 1.8 percent.

"So at all for us at PSI this is a good capital, it was said earlier that in the DPRD we experienced an extraordinary spike. Now there are 16 regencies/cities that we have our own factions," he said as quoted by ANTARA.

He said if PSI passed the parliamentary threshold, there would be about six seats for PSI in the Indonesian House of Representatives. Among them are Grace Natalie from the Electoral Region (Dapil) Jakarta III, Isyana Bagoes Oka in the Banten III electoral district, to Cynthia Riza from the Central Java electoral district V.

On Wednesday, March 20, the KPU appointed the PDI-P as a political party with the most votes in the DPR Legislative Member Election (Pileg) in the 2024 General Election.

The following are the details of the votes acquired by political parties in the 2024 General Election based on the results of the national level plenary meeting:

1. PKB 16,115,655 votes

2. Gerindra Party 20,071,708 votes

3. PDI Perjuangan 25,387,279 votes

4. Golkar Party 23,208,654 votes

5. NasDem Party 14,660,516 votes

6. Labor Party 972,910 votes

7. Indonesian Gelora Party 1,281,991 votes

8. PKS 12,781,353 votes

9. PKN 326,800 votes

10. Hanura Party 1,094,588 votes

11. Garuda Party 406,883 votes

12. PAN 10,984,003 votes

13. UN 484,486 votes

14. Democratic Party 11,283,160 votes

15. PSI 4,260,169 votes

16. Perindo Party 1,955,154 votes

17. PPP 5,878,777 votes

18. Ummat Party 642,545 votes.