PSI Secretary General Says There Has Been No Internal Discussion Of Kaesang Forward For The Jakarta Gubernatorial Election

PSI Chairman Kaesang Pangarep/ANTARA PHOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/foc.

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (Secretary General of PSI) Raja Juli Antoni said the news of Kaesang Pangarep running for the Jakarta gubernatorial election had not been discussed internally by the party.

"Not yet," said King Juli Antoni, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, June 3.

Raja Juli yang juga menjabat sebagai Wakil Menteri Menteri Agrarian dan Tata Spatial Indonesia itu meminta wartawan untuk memastikan kabar tersebut kepada pribadi Kaesang dan Koalisi Indonesia Maju (KIM).

"Ask Mas Kaesang. It depends on Mas Kaesang and KIM how good it is," he said when asked if he agreed with the discourse.

Previously, a poster appeared that paired the nephew of the elected Presidential Candidate Prabowo Subianto and the youngest son of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) in the DKI Pilkada was first uploaded by the Daily Chairperson of Gerindra Sufmi Dasco Ahmad at the end of May 2024.

Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party, Habiburokhman, said that the poster of the Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party DPP Budisatrio Djiwandono with PSI Chairman Kaesang Pangarep was a form of aspirations from the community. Later, Budisatrio emphasized that he would not run for the Jakarta gubernatorial election.

"Regarding Pak Budi Djiwandono's poster with Mas Kaesang, I think it is a form of conveying people's aspirations to us," he said.