Fahri Hamzah Gives Warning To People Close To The Palace, Don't Throw Jokowi Into The Pit Of Suffering

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JAKARTA - The majority of the public does not agree that the 2024 General Election will be postponed and that the presidential term will be extended. This is reflected in the results of the LSI survey released on Thursday, March 3.

The Deputy Chairperson of the Gelora Party, Fahri Hamzah, responded to this finding. He assessed that the survey consistently allowed President Joko Widodo to end his term in a good manner.

"If he (Jokowi, ed) is consistent with the constitutional schedule", Fahri told reporters, Friday, March 4.

The deputy chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives for the 2014-2019 period then reminded those closest to President Jokowi not to plunge him into the 'pit of misery'. Because, he said, if President Jokowi responded to a survey on the level of public satisfaction with his government as an excuse to extend his term of office, it would be disastrous.

"That needs to be emphasized so that people around the president do not let the president fall into a hole where his suffering will be borne by the president and his family forever", said Fahri.

Previously, the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) surveyed the discourse of postponing the 2024 General Election and extending the presidential term for economic reasons or the COVID-19 pandemic involving 1,197 respondents. As a result, the majority of residents who took part in the survey rejected these discourses.

In the results of the LSI survey that was broadcast in Jakarta, Thursday, March 3, 2022, respondents agreed that general elections should still be held in 2024. This is by the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia (UUD 1945).

The survey was conducted in two groups, including the discussion group on postponing the 2024 election and the presidential term extension group.

Director of Indonesian Survey Institute, Djayadi Hanan, at the launch of the survey results said that of a total of 1,197 respondents, the majority of them, around 68-71 percent, refused to extend the presidential term so that Indonesian President Joko Widodo had to end his term in 2024 according to constitutional rules.

Meanwhile, the same results also show that of 1,197 respondents, 64 percent indicated that they agreed that the general election would still be held in 2024, even though at the time it was still in the COVID-19 pandemic situation.

Djayadi explained that respondents who were pro-democracy and pro-economic development had similar views regarding the discourse on postponing the 2024 General Election. The majority of respondents from the two groups rejected the discourse on postponing the 2024 General Election.

"Based on the findings of this survey, the postponement of the election was rejected by the majority of citizens, especially those who are familiar with the discourse. Even though many people don't know yet, they are also very reluctant to be given this choice. This means that the more the political elite voices the discourse of postponement, the more people will know, and the stronger the residents' resistance to extending their term of office or postponing this election will be", said Djayadi.