Jakarta Governor's Position Ends In October 2022, Denny Siregar: His Success Team Is Maneuvering To Clean Anies' Name From Identity Politics For The 2017 Gubernatorial Election

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan. (Instagram @aniesupdaete)

JAKARTA - Anies Baswedan's term as Governor of DKI Jakarta will end in October 2022. In approximately six months, Anies will abdicate to become the number 1 person in DKI.

Social media activist Denny Siregar suspects that Anies' success team is maneuvering towards the end of the former Pramadina University rector's term as governor. The maneuver was carried out so that Anies' name was not forgotten by the public.

"One of the maneuvers carried out by Anies Baswedan's success team was to try to clear Anies' name from the dirty identity politics in the 2017 DKI gubernatorial election," said Denny on CokroTV's YouTube account, Thursday, April 28.

Denny explained that the 2017 DKI Jakarta gubernatorial election was a battle for governor candidates between Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok as the incumbent against the governor candidate who was the former Minister of Education and Culture, Anies Baswedan.

That's when, he said, identity politics was born and began to be used in the contestation of regional heads in Jakarta. "The 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election was the beginning of the division in this country because of identity politics," said Denny.

Denny told how dirty identity politics was at that time. He said many provocations, slander, and even attempts to corner someone were carried out in places of worship during the 2017 DKI gubernatorial election. chose Ahok as a candidate for governor," said Denny Siregar.

Denny admitted that he was traumatized by the 2017 DKI Pilgub. Denny even said he would fight the presidential candidate team.

"For sure, I will fight the people behind him, who have been waiting for an opportunity to rule in the name of religion," he concluded.