PKB-Gerindra Will Declare A Coalition In Sentul This Saturday

JAKARTA - The National Awakening Party (PKB) will formalize a coalition with the Gerindra Party through a declaration on Saturday, August 13.

This declaration is included in the final event of the national leadership meeting (Rapimnas) of the Gerindra Party which will be held on August 12-13 at the Sentul International Convention Center (SICC) Bogor, West Java.

Deputy Secretary General of the PKB DPP Syaiful Huda said the certainty of this declaration was decided after a number of PKB and Gerindra elites met to finalize the technical implementation and finalization of the Declaration Charter for Political Cooperation of the two parties.

"We met again to finalize the technical implementation of the declaration and finalization of the Declaration Charter. Currently, the certainty of the implementation time and venue for the declaration has been agreed. It remains only to finalize the technical aspects of the event from the joint committee so that the agenda can run smoothly," Huda said in a statement to reporters, Thursday. , August 11th.

In addition to Syaiful Huda, the technical maturation meeting for the implementation of the declaration was attended by Deputy General Chairperson of Gerindra Sugiono, Secretary General of PKB Hasanuddin Wahid, Chairman of the PKB DPP Cucun A Syamsurijal. The meeting was held at the residence of the DPP Secretary General Gerindra Ahmad Muzani in the South Jakarta area, Wednesday, August 10, evening.

"The timing of this declaration is a day after Gerindra comrades have finished their Rapimnas. Of course, the timing of this declaration is deliberately waiting for the completion of the Gerindra Rapimnas event because we respect the forum," he said.

The member of the DPR for the West Java electoral district explained that the process of political cooperation between PKB and Gerindra was carried out in stages. This stage, according to Huda, is important so that the political cooperation carried out is truly an agreement between the two parties and no one feels left out.

"We really count the process of political cooperation starting from the communication of the two general chairmen, followed by a meeting between regional administrators, then yesterday we just registered together as political parties participating in the 2024 General Election to the KPU and later it will be formalized through a joint declaration with the signing of the political cooperation agreement. black on white," he explained.

Huda said that the planned declaration of political cooperation between Gerindra and PKB would be attended by thousands of cadres from the two political parties. Later, he said, Gerindra General Chair Prabowo Subianto and PKB Chairman Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin) would deliver political speeches related to the background of cooperation and a vision of a better Indonesia in the future.

"In addition to reading the declaration charter, Pak Bowo and Gus Muhaimin will also deliver political speeches about their vision of Indonesia," he said.