Ask Cadres To Meet With Community, PDIP Secretary General: We Can Win 3 Times If Allowed

JAKARTA - PDI-P Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto reminded party cadres not to bring the 2024 presidential election contestation (Pilpres) too early.

All are asked to move with the people and make the administrations of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin successful.

This was conveyed by Hasto while attending the DPD PDIP Jakarta office, Tebet, South Jakarta today, Friday, July 22. He inaugurated the board of directors of the DPD Taruna Merah Putih, which is a party wing organization in the DKI Jakarta Province.

"We support and move in line with the Jokowi-Maruf Amin government which continues to build optimism, become a leader among the nations of the world, not talking about bringing the contestation (election) too early," Hasto said in a written statement.

Hasto said that PDIP could win the election three times in a row from 2014, 2019, and 2024. However, all of this requires community support so that all cadres, including the party's wing organization, Taruna Merah Putih (TMP) are asked to come down.

"We can win three times. But if the people allow it. Then we have to go down to the people. It must be a duty and dedication of life for us," he said.

Furthermore, Hasto said, the inauguration of the board is a manifestation of the party's seriousness in educating young people to become leaders. "As Bung Karno said, give me 10 youths and I will shake the world. Young people reflect progressiveness and revolutionary spirit, wrapped in the determination and banner of the PDI-P," he said.

"That's why we have to keep moving. We have to keep galvanizing ourselves. The ups and downs of the nation are determined by its young people," he continued.

Similarly, the Chairman of the DKI Jakarta PDIP DPD Ady Wijaya fueled the enthusiasm of the TMP cadres. The world, he continued, is in the hands of the nation's children.

Thus, Ady hopes that all TMP cadres will fight together with other PDIP cadres. "Let's fight together, we will face 2024, hopefully we will all work together well," said Aming.

Meanwhile, TMP General Chair Maruarar Sirait said all members must contribute to winning the PDIP in the 2024 election. The goal is that the party bearing the bull symbol can score three wins in a row.

"We must be compact and solid so that we can score a hat-trick again, winning three times in a row in the 2024 election. We follow the party's command. Let's work hard for the greatness of the party," said Maruarar.