JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo was asked to strongly rebuke the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan who was deemed wrong and had no authority to inflame the discourse of postponing the 2024 General Election.
Luhut became a public discussion because of his claim about big data, 110 million social media users who wanted the 2024 election to be postponed.
"Luhut's actions are actually oversight, meaning that he is not within his jurisdiction. Luhut is only the coordinating minister for marves, he has no authority, freedom of speech like a political party instead of being a spokesman for a political party is a big mistake for public officials," said the observer. politician and Executive Director of Indonesia Political Opinion (IPO) Dedi Kurnia Syah, when contacted by VOI, Wednesday, March 16.
"So it is appropriate for President Jokowi to rebuke very strongly so that Luhut does not interfere in political affairs because their territory is the executive," he continued.
Even in the executive area, continued Dedi, Luhut does not have any authority because there are Coordinating Ministers for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud Md and Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian who are far more appropriate and appropriate to discuss political matters. In particular, the discourse on postponing the 2024 General Election.
Therefore, according to Dedi, as long as Jokowi does not reprimand Luhut, it is reasonable to suspect that what he did was based on the blessing of the president himself.
"As long as there is no warning, the effort to postpone this end is with the president," he said.
Moreover, said Dedi, the president's attitude softened when he addressed the proposed postponement of the election. This means that there is an assumption that the President enjoys Luhut's discourse, which could be true.
"Including the president has started to give his approval even though it is implied that the effort to delay this election," he said.
Dedi suspects that there are other actors behind the scenario of postponing the election. Because it's impossible for Luhut to do it alone, let alone the General Chairman of the PKB Muhaimin Iskandar and the General Chairperson of PAN Zulkifli Hasan.
"These are small figures in the national circle. From the political parties perspective (PKB and PAN) they are not dominant political parties, moreover PAN whose portion is small the portion of influence is also not large, so like it or not we have to look for more powerful figures behind them, of course it is in their territory. and the palace area," he explained.
For this reason, Dedi again reminded that as long as President Jokowi does not directly order the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs and the Minister of Home Affairs for the discourse of postponing the election, the President will hide from this thirst for power.
"So then Luhut spoke because if it was the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs who spoke up, he would officially represent the country and Jokowi would be the suspect," said Dedi Kurnia Syah.
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