Megawati To Anies About Hope To Be Carried In The Jakarta Gubernatorial Election: Where Are You Going?

PDIP Chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

Chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri responded to a proposal from a number of cadres for her party to carry Anies Baswedan as a candidate for governor in the Jakarta Pilkada.

Megawati began to see the Buana PDIP Cakra Task Force putting up support banners on Anies while heading to the PDIP DPP Office. Megawati immediately confirmed to the Head of the Komarudin Watubun Task Force.

"I'm surprised that there was a red-black shirt putting up the banner, tell Mr. Anies to work together, okay? I asked the Komar, 'What is the task force?'. He said Mr. Komar "oh, the task force wants to support Mr. Anies," Megawati said in her speech at the PDIP DPP office, Central Jakarta, Thursday, August 22.

Megawati also assumed that Anies did hope to be carried by PDIP in the Jakarta gubernatorial election. Given that the former Governor of DKI Jakarta was abandoned by his party candidates, namely NasDem, PKB, and PKS.

The 5th President of the Republic of Indonesia also questioned why Anies had not initially asked PDIP for support to run in the Jakarta Pilkada.

"I really like scratched my head, you know. It's really good, yes. Now we are looking for support. I'm confused, you know. Where were you (Anies) yesterday afternoon, huh? Well, don't do that," explained Megawati.

Megawati emphasized that her party would not be that easy to recommend against Anies. Anies, he continued, had to comply with the PDIP if he wanted to be promoted.

"I said, 'It's okay, why am I told to support Mr. Anies?' He's right if you want to be with the PDI-P? If you want the PDI-P, don't be like that, will you. Do you want to, obey?" he said.

Chairman of the PDI-P DPP for Honorary Affairs Komarudin Watubun said Anies Baswedan has the opportunity to be promoted in the 2024 Jakarta Pilkada if he becomes a PDIP cadre.

The possibility to bring Anies open after the Constitutional Court (MK) changed the pilkada threshold which allowed PDIP to carry its own candidate pair.

"What we hope is that it must become a party cadre," said Komarudin at the PDIP DPP Office, Jakarta, Tuesday, August 20.

"Because we are experienced. What we only cadres can betray, especially those that are not cadred. That's right," he continued.

He also emphasized that basically PDIP will prioritize its own cadres first to be promoted in the regional elections.

The reason is, PDIP has a number of potential cadres, such as former DKI Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saiful Hidayat. Then, there are still potential members of the DPR RI Jakarta electoral district, namely Eriko Sotarduga and Masinton Pasaribu.

"We still have cadres, there is Ahok, there is Djarot, there is Eriko, there is Masinton. It's all party cadres. We just have to see who is roughly assigned, the General Chairperson is assigned to be elected by the people of DKI Jakarta," said Komarudin.