Attending The PDIP Homeland Coffee Festival, The Speaker Of The DPR Shouted 'Mbak Puan President'

JAKARTA - The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, received shouts of 'Mbak Puan President'. This moment occurred when he attended the Indonesian Coffee Festival held by the PDI-P at the East Parking of Senayan, Central Jakarta, today, Friday, May 27.

Initially, Puan was present to take part in coffee-making activities or coffee testing with other participants including the Secretary General of the PDI-P Hasto Kristiyanto to the Minister of MSMEs Teten Masduki who was also present at the event.

Furthermore, after the coffee tasting event was over, Puan went on stage with a number of figures including member of the Indonesian House of Representatives Krisdayanti. She sang several songs, one of which was Dewi, which was popularized by the Dewa 19 music group.

At that time, there were a number of PDIP cadres who shouted, 'Mbak Puan President!'. It is not clear whether he heard or not, but the chairman of the PDIP DPP continued to sing on stage with Krisdayanti and Hasto Kristiyanto before finally leaving the venue.

Meanwhile, Hasto Kristiyanto said the Coffee Festival was held as a proof that his party was not only talking about power. This is, as voiced by the General Chair of the PDIP Megawati Soekarnoputri.

Moreover, Megawati always directs her cadres to continue to carry out the work of populist politics, to continue to help the people.

"We hope that with this Festival, it will revive Indonesian Coffee, awaken Indonesian farmers, raise the spirit of the Indonesian people, so that finally Homeland Coffee is Indonesia's National Awakening," said Hasto in a written statement.

Complementing Hasto's statement, Chairman of the Committee for the Indonesian Coffee Festival, Ono Surono, added that the event was a closing series of the 49th Anniversary of PDIP. In the event entitled Indonesian Nationalism Awakening Coffee Festival, there were several series of activities, including exhibitions, exhibitions, taste tests, and hybrid coffee toasts.

"Where the coffee taste test was prepared by the committee on the spot and in a hybrid manner with a minimum target of 2,500 people. And, hopefully, it will get an award from the MURI record," he explained.

The coffee exhibition will present coffee activists from Aceh to Papua. Five ministries will also be involved, namely the Ministry of SOEs, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. Not only that, the community and coffee producers were also present.

Not until there, PDIP will also hold a barista competition with three categories, namely latte art, manual brew, and aeropress. "So far, the number of contestants has reached 535 people from Aceh to Papua," said Ono.

added, Ono said, this festival will last for three days, there will be cultural arts performances and performances by Indonesian artists such as Krisdayanti, Marcell Siahaan, Rizky Fabian to the music group HiVi!.