Learn Prospective Candidates In 2024 Must Know Their People, PDIP: Can't Just Andalate 'I Am A Family Official'

Secretary General of the PDI-P (PDIP) Hasto Kristiyanto said that being a member of parliament cannot only have popularity or nepotism. Anyone who wants to sit in that position must be able to work and know the needs of its people.

"Being a member of the council can not only rely on me, the family of officials A, I am the wife of official B, I am the son of an official C," said Hasto when opening the National Daulat Food Seminar Forming Farmer's Welfare and the Consolidation of Farmers' Progam Mari Welfare (MSP) at the PDIP Party School, Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta, Friday, February 3.

Hasto alluded to the phenomenon of taking advantage of popularity and nepotism that often occurs in an open proportional electoral system. Thus, PDIP agrees more with a closed system where the party is considered to have more part in determining the quality of its legislators.

"If proportionally is closed, it can become a member of the council because I know Indonesian farmers, I know the problem of Indonesian farmers and this is a solution for Indonesian farmers. It is proportionally closed," he said.

"Based on quality. This is what we must prepare as well as possible," continued Hasto.

Furthermore, Hasto understands the desire to implement a closed proportional electoral system against the flow. Moreover, eight factions in the DPR RI rejected the proposal.

However, PDIP remains confident in the proposal that is currently being tested at the Constitutional Court (MK). "Politics sometimes goes against the flow, which was conveyed by Mrs. Megawati Soekarnoputri (Chairman of PDIP). Emphasizing the path of ideology is not a smooth path but a steep road and even sometimes winding, full of political traps," he said.

Moreover, this closed proportionality does not mean buying a cat in a sack as stated by many parties. The proof, said Hasto, is that many PDIP cadres were born, such as Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo to Social Minister Tri Rismaharini, who is the leader of this system.

They have prepared parties and even underwent education in party schools. "Leaders in the current PDI-P are all born out of closed proportion. Because we in the party have prepared," said Hasto.

"Therefore, we are committed to wanting to find in the legislative recruitment, are those who are really great to be placed in," he concluded.