JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD believes that the government of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) cannot be overthrown due to COVID-19 reasons. Moreover, there are no violations of the law that occurred during the government running.
"The government also has confidence that the current government, God willing, cannot be brought down because of COVID-19 because no law violations have been committed," said Mahfud in his written statement after a virtual dialogue with the Nahdatul Ulama Executive Board (PBNU), Monday, July 26.
This was conveyed by Mahfud MD in response to the statement of PBNU Chairman Said Aqil Siradj who stated that his party would not overthrow the government without clear violations of the law. Moreover, NU has a bitter history when the 4th President of the Republic of Indonesia Abdurrachman Wahid or Gus Dur was ousted.
Hearing similar views, Mahfud appreciated and was grateful for the support given. "It turns out, PBNU also has a similar view," said the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK).
Mahfud then invited all religious leaders and religious organizations, especially PBNU, to raise people's awareness that COVID-19 is a real threat that needs to be faced.
Mahfud said, the way to deal with this pandemic is to implement health protocols. In addition, NU residents are required to carry out a COVID-19 vaccination program in order to achieve herd immunity or communal immunity of up to 70 percent.
At the meeting, Said Aqil had stated that there was a political movement to disrupt the stability and program of President Jokowi's government. "There has been a political movement. The target is at least to interfere, to disrupt the sustainability of Pak Jokowi's government and his ministers, which they know is not easy," he said.
"Because we have a presidential system, not a parliamentary system, but at least they make it difficult for their programs to fail," said Said Aqil.
Even so, he agrees that the COVID-19 social assistance (bansos) corruption case carried out by the Minister of Social Affairs, Juliari Batubara, has undermined public trust in the government. "How heavy is the government's burden, I understand, I know but how sick the people are when social assistance is corrupted when the minister has the heart to corrupt social assistance," said Said Aqil.
"Masha Allah, this is a very painful slap. In fact, the government should care about how to lighten the burden on people who are being exposed to COVID, in fact social assistance is being corrupted," he concluded.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
