When Luhut Claims Big Data Election Postponement, Fadli Zon Insinuates The Extension Of The Term Of The Coordinating Minister For Marves

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JAKARTA - The claim of the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan regarding data on the aspirations of the Indonesian people who want a postponement of the 2024 General Election was mentioned by the Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party DPP, Fadli Zon. Coordinating Minister Luhut in Deddy Corbuzier's YouTube channel. This big data was previously mentioned as the originator of the postponement of the 2024 General Election, namely the General Chairperson of the PKB Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin.

According to Fadli Zon, Coordinating Minister Luhut needs to disclose the data he has to the public. So, he said, the public could analyze the validity of the reference data.

"It is better to disclose the data to the public so that it does not appear as if it is justifying any means for the purpose of violating the constitution," said Fadli via his personal Twitter account, Saturday, March 12.

The former deputy chairman of the DPR RI then quipped Luhut. Fadli considered that it was probably Luhut who had the most interest in the discourse so that he could serve as coordinating minister for a longer period of time.

"It seems that what needs to be postponed or extended is the position of the Coordinating Minister for Marves," he quipped. Previously, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan spoke about the discourse of postponing the election until the term of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was extended. Luhut claims to have data on the aspirations of the Indonesian people who want a postponement of the 2024 election.

This was conveyed by Luhut in the #closethedoor podcast on Deddy Corbuzier's YouTube channel, as seen, Friday, March 11. In his conversation with Deddy, Luhut explained that his party had big data which recorded public aspirations on social media regarding the 2024 General Election.

"Because of this, we have big data, I want to see, we have big data, from that big data, we grab around 110 million. Yes, 110 million, various kinds, Facebook, all kinds, because people are on Twitter, about 110 million people," said Luhut.

From this data, Luhut explained that the lower middle class wanted a calm socio-political condition. The people, said Luhut, do not want political noise and prefer economic conditions to be improved.

"In the middle to lower class, basically we want to be calm, we want to talk about the economy, we don't want it to be like yesterday. Yesterday we had a toothache with a camphor, cebong lah, kadrun, that's not good. so," he explained.

Still from the big data claimed by Luhut, he said that the Indonesian people criticized the Rp 100 trillion more funds for the 2024 election. The hundreds of trillions of funds were indeed proposed by the KPU to the DPR-government.

"Nowadays like this, he said, we are trying to catch it from the public (from these data), yes it says we want to spend more than Rp 100 trillion to vote, this is a situation like this, what are you doing for the presidential election and regional elections, right? simultaneously," he said.

Luhut said that the party's reluctance to hold the 2024 general election should have arrested the public's aspiration regarding the reluctance to hold the 2024 election. According to him, the party should seriously consider the aspiration to postpone the election.

"Yes, that's what the people said. Well, this niche is in the Democratic Party, there is the Gerindra Party, PDIP, there is PKB, there is Golkar, there are niches everywhere. Yes, he will see which one hear our voices."

Luhut claims that there are many examples of other countries delaying elections or extending presidential terms. However, Luhut emphasized President Jokowi's stance regarding the discourse on postponing the election and extending the term of office, namely remaining obedient to the constitution.