Anies Baswedan Keok In The Survey, Rewarded With A Red Report Card From LBH, Ade Armando 'Kiss' The Potential Of Identity Politics In The 2024 Presidential Election

Lecturer and Communication Expert at the University of Indonesia (UI) Ade Armando (Photo: Capture of CokroTV)

JAKARTA - University of Indonesia (UI) lecturer Ade Armando smells the potential of identity politics in the upcoming 2024 General Election (Election). This potential emerged during the declaration or discourse on the advancement of Anies Baswedan at the grand political event.

As is known, a number of volunteers on behalf of the Prosperous Indonesia National Alliance (ANIES) declared Anies Baswedan a 2024 presidential candidate.

ANIES Coordinator, Laode Basir said the support was given because Anies' performance in leading Jakarta for the past four years was considered very good. According to Ade, from several survey results from leading institutions such as SMRC or Indonesian Political Indicators, Anies' electability is far from competitors such as Prabowo Subianto and Ganjar Pranowo.

In the SMRC survey, for example, Anies' electability was around 14.3 percent. While Prabowo Subianto at 20.7 percent and Ganjar Pranowo, 19 percent. Furthermore, in the Indicator survey, Anies is at 15.5 percent. Meanwhile, Prabowo has the highest electability with 26.2 percent followed by Ganjar, 20.8 percent.

For Ade, the low level of support for Anies opens up opportunities for identity politics to play out in the same way as in 2016.

"Anies was originally in the lowest position in various surveys of candidates for the DKI gubernatorial election at first. The survey showed Anies was under the support of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. However, Anies used Islam, active campaign teams in mosques and recitations and collaborated with ulama. This time too A similar strategy was carried out," said Ade quoted from the CokroTV Youtube channel, Friday, October 22.

Not to mention the red report card that LBH Jakarta gave to Anies Baswedan with 10 short notes during his 4 years of leading Jakarta. Among them, the poor air quality of Jakarta, the difficulty of accessing clean water, the handling of urban village arrangements that have not yet taken the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government seriously in expanding access to legal aid.

"This may also explain why various survey results from leading research institutions in Indonesia currently show Anies's lower electability," said Ade.

With these failures, Ade is worried that the potential use of identity politics will re-emerge in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Ada hopes that the community will continue to maintain common sense so as not to get involved in the game of these issues.