President's Discourse For 3 Periods, Observer: Scenario Trapping Jokowi Prints Dark History

President Joko Widodo (Antara)

JAKARTA - A political observer from Survey-link Indonesia (Sulindo), Wempi Hadir, assessed that certain groups are trying to consciously design a movement to support the extension of the presidential term of office to 3 terms. Then try to do testing on the water.

"They are trying to see how the reaction will be to the movement. It is very clear if you read the theory of cause and effect, you can find out more about who will benefit from this situation", Wempi said in a discussion on the Syndicate Election Update entitled 'Presidential Discourse on 3 Periods: Where did it come from, where did it go? The direction?' monitored by VOI online, Wednesday, June 23.

Interestingly, said Wempi, in a short time two movements appeared simultaneously. Namely the Jokowi-Prabowo Community (JokPro) in Jakarta and the Referendum Committee for the presidential term in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).

"It's almost the same theme, the first talk is pushing for 3 presidential terms, the second is trying to amend Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution", he explained.

"Therefore, if we talk about causal theory, I think the people who will lose power, economy, social politics, the loss of Jokowi's position in 2024 I think these people are responsible for today's political movements", continued Wempi.

Second, he continued, today's political party groups do not dare to express their position clearly and even look very gray. For example, the Party, Nasdem, and even its general chairman, Surya Paloh, did not give a firm statement to reject the three-term presidential position.

"This shows that it is Jokowi who has political power. We know that today Jokowi has 74.26 percent political power in the government coalition", he explained.

"This power is absolute. Because more than 70 percent of political power is owned by Jokowi. So anything can happen, changes to the law can really happen because the power is so adequate, the question is whether Jokowi wants it or not", Wempi added.

That, according to Wempi, is why the movement is trying to push Jokowi to become president for three terms. This is because they are well aware that the political power of the two-term president is extraordinary.

Third, Wempi said, they saw that Jokowi had not yet said that he would not run.

In political events, Wempi gave an example of how Jokowi said that his son would not be involved in politics. Before Gibran entered the Solo Pilkada contest.

At the same time, Jokowi was tempted by the deadly seduction of those closest to him to push Gibran into the contest for mayor of Solo and everything happened.

"I am afraid that Jokowi is not strong with the seductions and temptations made by the invisible government. Now, this invisible government is not political parties, but people who control power in the palace. They have political stakes that make Jokowi president", he explained.

And today, continued Wempi, the people who own political shares see that this "Kue Kekuasaan" must not be lost to them for 10 years until 2024.

Therefore, according to Wempi, they designed it so that hegemony or power would last.

"And the impact of power is 3 things. First, the accumulation of power or wealth. Second, it is about political power. The third is about social issues, there is a social increase for people around Jokowi", he said.

If Jokowi is not careful, Wempi added, then Jokowi will be trapped in a scenario of violating the law to extend the power of the parties concerned. Jokowi, he said, would print a dark history for Indonesian democracy.

"Well, things like this we can see people playing with various ways to change the law, crashing into democracy and the most important is the scenario of trapping Jokowi and printing a dark history for this nation if Jokowi is not careful", Wempi emphasized.