Airlangga-Ganjar Duet Appears, BRIN Researcher: If You Are Serious, It Is Better To Start Communication Between KIB And PDIP Early

JAKARTA - Grassroots Strategic Consulting (ARSC) released the results of public opinion entitled The Midpoint of Indonesian Democracy Towards the 2024 Election.

In the simulation results, the pair of presidential and vice presidential candidates, Airlangga Hartarto-Ganjar Pranowo, defeated Prabowo Subianto-Muhaimin Iskandar and Puan Maharani-Anies Baswedan.

Responding to this finding, researcher at the Political Research Center of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Aisah Putri Budiatri, revealed that there are communication opportunities between the parties that are members of the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) and PDIP. This is based on the current good relations between Golkar, PAN, PPP and PDIP.

Puput said that political parties will always look for opportunities to win in elections. If cooperating with other parties will increase the chances of winning the election, then a coalition is also possible.

"The opportunity for a party coalition is certainly possible. Especially now that we see that the relationship between the parties in KIB and PDIP is fine. And there is no track record that is very frontal, in the context of PAN under Zulhas," said Puput in Jakarta, Thursday. , July 22.

Puput assessed that the General Chairperson (Ketum) of Golkar, Airlangga Hartarto, had the potential to run for the 2024 presidential election. The Coordinating Minister for the Economy was considered to have strong enough political capital so that what was needed was to choose the right partner to compete in the five-year contest, including the Governor of Java. Central Ganjar Pranowo.

"Looking at the opportunities one by one, I suspect that Airlangga has a strong potential to run, because he currently has political power with his party coalition, so the current political strategy is more about choosing the right partner. And of course, Airlangga will target popular candidates in the public sphere , including Ganjar," he explained.

While Ganjar Pranowo's current position, continued Puput, is waiting between the certainty of a nomination from PDIP and waiting for applications from other parties. Puput considered that Ganjar would benefit from his popularity and good electability. On the other hand, Ganjar still needs support from political parties.

"Ganjar as an individual will be a superior candidate because he is consistently popular in the public eye, but his position will be difficult if he fails to win party support," he said.

According to Puput, the pair of Airlangga and Ganjar can complement each other which can make the couple very potential. Airlangga with the power of political parties, while Ganjar with the capital of popularity.

If the Airlangga-Ganjar pair is serious about realizing it, according to him, KIB should have communicated with PDIP from an early age. However, Puput outlines that all possibilities can still happen, considering that the 2024 presidential election is still far away.

"However, of course it cannot be confirmed at this time because the road to candidacy is still long," said Puput.