Friends Of Andra Soni - Dimyati Hope For Improvement Of Welfare

Andra Soni received support from fellow workers. (IST)

TANGERANG - Around 200 labor representatives calling themselves Sahabat Workers Andra Soni - Dimyati Banten Province declared support for this couple in Swiss-Belhotel Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Monday 30 September.

"We, the Workers of Friends of Andra Soni - Dimyati of Banten Province, have stated that we support and will win Andra Soni as governor and deputy governor of Bantem Province for the period 2024-2029," said the Chairman of Labor Sahabat Andra Soni - Dimyati Banten Province, Faizal Rakhman in his statement, Monday 30 September.

In addition, continued Faizal, the worker Sahabat Andra Soni-Dimyati of Banten Province, which consists of 100,000 people, fully supports this couple's work program for the welfare of workers in Banten Province.

"We have confidence that the election of Mr. Andra Soni Dimyati as Governor of Banten will provide a better improvement in the welfare of workers in Banten Province," he said.

Faizal said that the welfare of workers must be realized through the provincial level, where the governor is the executor of the rules of the Manpower Law, including being the supervisor of the welfare of workers.

"We need the Governor and Deputy Governor who voted with the President of the Republic of Indonesia and only one in Banten, namely Mr. Andra Soni and Dimyati, who received the full blessing of the elected President of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Prabowo Subianto. So that we hope that as workers, the vision, mission to improve welfare carried by Mr. Andra Soni will also represent workers throughout Banten will be realized after being elected as Governor of Banten 2024-2029," he said.

Faizal revealed that the manager of Labor Sahabat Andra Soni-Dimyati is complete and is in eight regencies/cities throughout Banten. In addition, the management at the Banten Province level is also complete.

"We are targeting 100 thousand workers throughout Banten to win the Andra Soni-Dimyati pair," he said.

Meanwhile, Banten Governor candidate Andra Soni expressed his gratitude for the declaration of support from Friends of Labor Andra Soni-Dimyati for the victory of the 2024 Banten Pilkada.

Andra Soni said that the drivers of the economy in Indonesia in general and Banten in particular were workers. Before Banten Province was formed, said Andra, more investment in works was more than capital-intensive.

"Currently, Banten is the fifth-placed area for investment purposes. Hopefully in the future the workers in Banten will be more prosperous," he said.

Andra admits that he has also been a construction worker after graduating from high school and often hangs out with labor activists. Therefore, he admitted that he really understood the lives of the workers.

"I salute the name of this Sahabat Laborer Andra Soni-Dimyati. His name means, if I am later elected as governor of Banten, the workers will remain my friends. I am also committed, if I am elected governor of Banten, I will continue to communicate with the workers through the tripartite institutions in Banten Province., "he said.

On that occasion, Andra conveyed his vision and mission, one of which was a free school flagship program. He revealed that so far free schools only apply to SMA/SMK and the state MA. He promised, if he was elected governor of Banten, he would also free private schools.

"Children in private schools are also our children, residents of Banten. It is unfair that free schools only apply to public schools. Maybe someone asks, is it possible that free schools apply to private schools? The answer is, it is very possible as long as there is no corruption," he said.

Former chairman of the DPRD Andra Soni himself ran in the Banten gubernatorial election after receiving support from 10 parties.

The ten parties that support the Andra-Dimyati pair are the Gerindra Party, PKS, the NasDem Party, the National Awakening Party (PKB), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP), the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), the Democratic Party, the Garda Republik Indonesia Party (Garuda), and the People's Fair and Prosperous People's Party (Prima).