Gibran Judged Hashim Ideally As Prabowo's Assistant, Youth Representative

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Gerindra Party Board of Trustees Hashim Djojohadikusumo stated that Gibran Rakabuming Raka is a representation of a young figure who ideally accompanies Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 presidential election. According to him, Gibran was able to complete Prabowo Subianto, who was already known to be poor across the country's political arena.

"I don't think it's a secret that Mas Gibran is one of the candidates for vice president," said Hashim, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, September 30.

Meanwhile, the Mayor of Surakarta, he said, is a figure who is able to represent the voices and thoughts of youth in Indonesia.

"Pak Prabowo, a 72-year-old senior politician full of sweet experience and bitter experience. Mas Gibran is around 35 or 36 years old if I'm not mistaken, this can be 'balance' so I think it's very good," he said.

"The experience may be that Mas Gibran lacks experience but later as vice president for five years or more, his experience could increase," he said.

Nevertheless, Hashim said that President Joko Widodo's son's opportunity to participate in the constellation of next year's state leadership election is still waiting for the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the age limit for presidential and vice presidential candidates.

"It all depends on the Constitutional Court's decision that we all look forward to," he said.

Prabowo Subianto's younger brother added that several names were also often linked to fill the position of prospective vice president candidate from the presidential candidate promoted by the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM).

"I don't think it's a secret anymore, there is a name from Mr. Erick Thohir, Ms. Khofifah, Mrs. Governor of East Java, and maybe there are others, of course there are Mr. Airlangga from the supporting parties," he said.

Based on the schedule set by the General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, the registration of prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates is scheduled to start from October 19 to November 25, 2023.

As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election who meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the total number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of valid votes nationally in the previous election for members of the DPR.

Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. In addition, candidate pairs can also be promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.