3 Times Salahkan Pemimpin Saat Bicara Keadilan, Megawati: Setiap Malam Saya Nangis

PDIP Chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri during the announcement of the district and city level cakada at the PDIP DPP Office, Jakarta, Wednesday, August 14. (Screenshot-VOI)

JAKARTA - General Chairperson (Ketum) of the PDI-P (PIDP) Megawati Soekarnoputri admitted that she cried when she spoke about the standards of justice and prosperity in Indonesia. He also blamed the leader.

Initially, Megawati asked the regional head of PIDP cadres to take to the field to alleviate extreme poverty.

He also said that he assigned his cadre Tri Rismaharini when he was Minister of Social Affairs to handle the findings of an old man without family protection to be allowed to live in a goat pen.

Megawati then told the story of residents who lived under the bridge in Surabaya during the era of Mayor Eri Cahyadi and in Jakarta in the era of former DKI Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok.

"Pak Eri, Surabaya, at that time there was a village of one thousand nights, I told you to see earlier I thought that there was a bridge in the village, under which our people live," Megawati said in her speech at the announcement of candidates for regional heads at the district/city level and governors for the first wave at the PDIP DPP Office, Jakarta, Wednesday, August 14.

"Ha? Don't you have a conscience? I told you to call, I told you to pick up Mr. Ahok saying 'just take it, take care of it, when are you willing humans to eat with rats'. Are you Indonesian people or not? Are you the Indonesian people or not?" continued the daughter of the 1st President of the Republic of Indonesia Soekarno.

For what he said, Megawati admitted that she was sad that the standards of justice and prosperity in Indonesia were still unequal. According to him, it was wrong for leaders from regional heads to presidents.

"Every night I cry, just look at it like this: How come it can't be fair and prosperous, then whose fault is it? The leader, the leader [says] twice, the leader three times," said Megawati.

Furthermore, Megawati said that she would continue to convey this anxiety considering the 79th Anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia on August 17 in sight.