Giring Becomes A Spotlight For Calling Anies A Liar, PSI Clarifies The Meaning Of 'Lies'

Acting Chairman of PSI Giring Ganesha/IST

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Partai Solidaritas Indonesia (PSI) Fraction, Nanang Priyo Utomo, clarified the statement by PSI General Chair, Giring Ganesha, who called DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan a liar.

Nanang said that Giring's lie referred to Anies' promise when he ran for governor, different from what he did after he was elected.

"The lie referred to by our general chairman is the difference between campaign promises and actions shown by Mr. Anies in running the government in DKI", said Nanang to VOI, Wednesday, September 22.

When nominating, continued Nanang, Anies promised programs that would help the poor, such as a Rumah DP 0, to OKE OCE.

"Promises such as houses with a down payment of 0 rupiahs, providing job opportunities through OK OCE as well as river naturalization are not carried out optimally", he explained.

However, Nanang said, Anies actually spent trillions of rupiah for the implementation of Formula E in Jakarta. Especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

"But forcing the expenditure of trillions of rupiah to organize races that have never been promised and are not needed by the community", he continued.

Nanang said that Giring's statement also emphasized PSI's stance against the Formula E event in Jakarta. It is known that the PSI faction of the DKI Regional House of Representatives is one of the factions that proposed the right of interpellation on the Formula E policy.

"The interpellation is a formal step from PSI in Jakarta. Meanwhile, the president's statement is a form of PSI's concern for the inability of the DKI Regional Government to the social conditions of the community due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which we have not fully resolved", said Nanang.