Sending Signals To Each Other With PDIP About The Jakarta Pilkada, Observer: Anies Wants To Keep His Political Card Alive

Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy & Strategic Affairs (Indostrategic) Ahmad Khoirul Umam. BETWEEN -HO-Indostrategic

JAKARTA - Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy & Strategic Affairs (Indostrategic) Ahmad Khoirul Umam assessed that the interaction between Anies Baswedan and PDIP (PDIP) which sent signals to each other regarding the potential for cooperation in the Jakarta Pilkada was part of the assessment effort. "Even though Anies and PDIP are in different political and ideological carriages in the 2019 DKI Jakarta Pilkada and the 2024 presidential election, in the 2024 Jakarta Pilkada, these two entities could be met by the same interests," Ahmad said in a written statement received in Jakarta, Antara, Sunday, June 9. According to him, this collaboration can be a symbiosis of mutualism for both parties. PDIP, which has lost its golden ticket and dominance in local Jakarta politics, requires additional strength to deal with the winners of the 2024 General Election who will hold power. Meanwhile, Anies is also interested in keeping his political card alive and relevant until the upcoming 2029 presidential election. "Anies, who incidentally is incumbent and has adequate roots in DKI Jakarta, will be looked at and look at PDIP, which has 16 percent support in Jakarta, to win the Pilkada battle in the megapolitan city," he said. He considered that the positive side obtained if Anies and PDIP united was that there would be no more ideological conflicts because of the merging of two political forces that had been the representation of the right political power of nationalists and Islam. However, he continued, the merger also has the opportunity to weaken their respective loyal voter bases, both in Jakarta and in the national volunteer network, which have been consolidated by strong ideological sentiment. According to him, if Anies will run with PDIP in the Jakarta Pilkada, the former governor of DKI must be able to ensure that he gets the support of another political party. Moreover, he continued, currently the Change Coalition parties in the 2024 General Election are conducting an assessment to enter the Prabowo-Gibran government, so it is likely to have an impact on the composition of the Jakarta Pilkada coalition. “It means that the discourse on the merging of Anies and PDIP entities in the Jakarta Pilkada is still too early. There is no stronger further indication that it will allow for political consolidation to occur, ” he said. Previously, PDIP DPP chairman Ahmad Basarah said that the party opened up opportunities for cooperation with the National Awakening Party (PKB) to work together in supporting Anies Baswedan again as a Candidate for Governor of Jakarta.

"It is very possible that the discussion regarding political cooperation regarding candidates promoted from PKB, in this case Mr. Anies Baswedan, will be discussed with a candidate that we may carry from the PDI-P," said Ahmad on Saturday (8/6). He said that the PDI-P is still trying to find the right person to be carried in the fight for the seat of the number one person in Jakarta.