Amien Rais Confesses Seeing Communists Rise In The Jokowi Era, Founder Of PAN: How Do American S3 Become This?

Amien Rais (Photo: PAN.or.id)

JAKARTA - Abdillah Toha can't stop thinking about Amien Rais with his controversial statement to the Joko Widodo (Jokowi) government. Amien Rais said that he personally witnessed the rise of communism since Jokowi became president.

This was expressed by Abdillah through his Twitter account @AT_AbdillahToha, quoted by VOI, Thursday, March 18 evening. Abdillah is one of the founding figures of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

"Pak Amien graduated from a doctoral degree with a doctorate in political science from a university in America. How did it turn out like this ?," tweeted Abdillah.

Mr. Amien graduated from a doctoral degree with a doctorate in political science from a university in America. How did it turn out like this? pic.twitter.com/eMXvYH1HZa

- Abdillah Toha (@AT_AbdillahToha) March 14, 2021

In the tweet, he included an article from an online media entitled "Amien Rais: I Have Seen Communism Rise Since Jokowi Became President."

Until this news was published, Abdillah's tweets had been liked by 1,489 people with 385 retweets. Amien took a master's degree in political science at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. From the same university, he obtained a Certificate on East-European Studies.

Meanwhile, his Doctoral degree was obtained from the University of Chicago, United States (1981) by specializing in Middle Eastern politics and was completed in 1984.

He won a doctorate at the age of 37. His well-known dissertation, entitled: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: its Rise, Demise, and resurgence (Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Birth, Collapse and Resurrection). In addition, he also attended the Post-Doctoral Program at George Washington University in 1986 and at UCLA in 1988.

In the past week, Amien's statement has been controversial. Through his YouTube account, the former chairman of the MPR revealed that the Jokowi administration had attempted to control top state institutions and this was considered dangerous.

In the video he uploaded, Amien also suspected that the Jokowi regime would push the MPR session to make changes to the two articles. One of them is changing the term of office of the president.

"So they will take the first step asking the MPR Special Session, which may be one or two articles, he said, needs to be corrected. Which, I also don't know, but later a new article will be offered which then gives the right that the president can be elected three times," he said as quoted. from the video uploaded on the Amien Rais Official account.

"If this is really their wish, then I think we can immediately say inalillahi wa inalillahirojiun," he added.