PDIP Not Sanctioning

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JAKARTA - The Central Executive Board (DPP) of the PDI-P has summoned the administrator of the DPC PDIP Purworejo, Albertus Sumbogo, regarding the banteng vs boar polemic. Albertus initiated the Fighting Boar Front, after being reprimanded for declaring the Indonesian Ganjar National Secretariat (SGI).

The chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) for honor, Komaruddin Watubun, explained that the party's central leadership asked for information from Albertus Sumbogo who declared a group of volunteers to support Ganjar Pranowo.

"We're calling for clarification in question. However, we also summoned several members of the Indonesian House of Representatives who were less active in meetings because of the pandemic," said Komaruddin Watubun, Friday, October 15.

According to him, the summons was carried out as part of the party's internal mechanism. This is because the results of the party congress mandate that the presidential and vice presidential candidates are fully decided by the General Chairperson, Megawati Soekarnoputri.

So, he said, any party cadre from the beginning has been instructed not to get involved in the declarations of the volunteer groups of presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

"The Party's DPP in order to enforce Party discipline will summon Party members and cadres who make declarations of presidential and vice-presidential candidates before the party's official announcement," he said.

However, Komaruddin said that there had been no sanctions against Albertus and other rogue cadres.

"Just being reminded again. Again, the decisions of the congress that we made together, the decisions of the congress are the party's highest decisions," he said.

Furthermore, he said, if there are aspirations from the community, they will be accommodated first and officially communicated to the party. Don't immediately declare support for each person.

"We are a big family of PDI-P, of course, not all of us have the same voice. There must be different aspirations. He is the chairman of the election victory. Well, let's be orderly in the structure. That there are aspirations from the people, from the public. please accommodate it and distribute it on time. Later it will be officially conveyed through the party, later the final decision will be with the party chairman, "explained Komaruddin.

Komaruddin added that Albertus had indeed been offended by being called a boar by the Chairman of the PDIP DPP for Election Winning, Bambang Wuryanto. Therefore, he said, the party also reminded the issue of discipline so as not to offend one another.

"We understand that there is an offence about the language of wild boars. (But) it has been separated between the offense of fellow cadres and the interests of the larger party," concluded Komaruddin.