Heru Budi Reluctant To Answer About The Desire To Advance For The DKI Regional Head Election: Tomorrow Is Full Of Mystery

Acting Governor Of DKI Heru Budi Hartono/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono did not want to answer whether he wanted to run in the 2024 Jakarta Pilkada. Heru left it to fate regarding the situation in the future.

"The Jakarta goal can come from anywhere. So tomorrow is full of mystery," said Heru at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Thursday, March 28.

Currently, Heru is also still the Head of the Presidential Secretariat with the status of ASN. However, there was a response from the PSI faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD which considered Heru suitable to be the next governor.

Heru did not rule out the opportunity for him to run for the election of the Governor and Deputy Governor of Jakarta. Because, according to him, anyone can become a candidate for governor and deputy governor.

"Here there is Mr. Kasatpol PP, also has the potential. It's called a balloon, a candidate, right?" said Heru.

What is clear, Heru hopes that the implementation of the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada in Jakarta which will be held in the next few months can run smoothly.

"Hopefully it will run smoothly. Voting is also safe. Pilkada hopefully, it will run smoothly," he added.

Previously, PSI saw that Heru Budi Hartono was able to continue Joko Widodo's leadership, who had served as Governor of DKI Jakarta for the 2012-2014 period. When he had just served as Governor of DKI, Heru immediately continued the river normalization program that Jokowi used to run.

"We (the DKI government) must not be different from the central government. The central government has a normalization policy, meaning that the Governor of DKI Jakarta must also obey normalization," said the chairman of the PSI faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD on Tuesday, March 26.

"If the Governor has a different policy, for example there are those who state the naturalization concept. It is different from the central government, when there is a difference in concepts with flood management, there will be no significant progress," he continued.

William said that flood management in Jakarta must be carried out together, between the Pempus and the local government. Heru Budi is considered to understand the concept so he continues Jokowi's programs in Jakarta.

"We saw him (Heru) reopening the public complaint post at City Hall. It was a good tradition, it was also removed from Pak Anies," added William.