Golkar Will Bring The Proposal For The Kaesang-Yusuf Hamka Duet To Advance For The Jakarta Gubernatorial Election To The KIM Meeting

Secretary General of the Golkar Party, Lodewijk F Paulus at the Golkar Jakarta DPP Office, 11 July 2024 (Nailin/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Golkar Party encourages PSI Chairman Kaesang Pangarep to advance in the Jakarta 2024 gubernatorial election (Pilgub). Golkar also offers its cadre who is also the toll road boss, Yusuf Hamka alias Babah Alun to become a candidate for deputy governor (cawagub) to accompany Kaesang. "Yes, of course, after that, this is the beginning of course how there will be further communication, then the story needs to seek support from other parties. Then after that we form a new team followed by socialization," said Secretary General of the Golkar Party, Lodewijk F Paulus at the Golkar Party DPP office, Thursday, July 11, evening. Lodewijk also revealed the reason why Golkar wanted to nominate Kaesang as a cagub in the Jakarta Pilkada. In fact, the survey of President Joko Widodo's youngest son is high in Central Java. "The stories of young people are of course in the big city of their young children, of course, try to see Mas Kaesang's team as young children, so they work on a big city, say Jakarta metropolitan will be easier, than saying Central Java he has to go to Gunung Kidul, Wonosobo and so on will be easier and this factor for young people who are creative nah in the backup by I say earlier Babah Alun," said Lodewijk. "Of course that's not a factor, there are many factors that we have seen in these two months," he continued. Lodewijk said, Kaesang-Yusuf Hamka's proposal was not a speech. But it has gone through internal talks by looking at the results of existing surveys.

"Of course, when Golkar spoke, in the midst of making this decision there had been an earlier survey. What we are seeing is that this survey tends to increase," he said.

Therefore, Golkar will bring the proposal for this duet to KIM. Moreover, Golkar and PSI are members of the same coalition.

"What is clear is that if we talk about the regional elections, of course we look at the coalition. There is an Advanced Indonesia Coalition, so if we talk about Golkar with PSI, it means that the Indonesian Coalition is advanced. Only from this coalition do we see the political reality in the field. Now that is what we need to combine where there are weaknesses there, we will regulate geopolitically, for sure each region is different," he explained.