When Puan Maharani Asked The People Not To Vote For A 'handsome' President, PDIP Revealed This Figure

Puan Maharani/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The statement by the Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, who asked citizens not to vote for a 'handsome' leader, has been in the spotlight. Initially, Puan reminded the cadres to choose a figure who would work together to build the nation.

"I ask that you return to your Indonesian roots. Choose people who really love Indonesia, support people who really want to work together to build this nation together," said Puan when giving a speech in front of the Wonogiri DPC, Tuesday, April 26 .

The reason, said Puan, is because nowadays people prefer leaders who look handsome and often appear on social media. But, once told to serve the people, he couldn't. "Why am I saying this? Sometimes now we like 'yo wes he's just handsome, he's the only one that's chosen as long as he's not a woman, yo wes he's just not an iso opo-opo but the important thing is that he's on social media, on social media TV is fun, but then you can't work, you're not close to the people," said the chairman of the PDIP DPP.

Puan then asked the cadres whether to choose a character with these criteria. The bull cadres were not willing to be led by such a person. "Do you want that kind of leader or not?" asked Puan. "No," answered the PDIP cadres.

Puan also ordered her cadres in Wonogiri to choose leaders who would help and fight for the needs of the community. Puan said, don't just choose a leader who only likes to look for the stage. "Don't just choose it because it's only seen on the stage, the stage is the media stage, TV stage, social media stage, but choose people who have really fought for us, once together with us, ever cooperated with us. Do you agree or not?" said Puan. "Agreed," replied the cadres again.

So, who is the handsome leader who likes to appear on social media that Puan is referring to?

PDIP Reveals a 'Handsome' President

Responding to Puan Maharani's statement, PDIP also revealed one person that Puan might be referring to.

Head of Bappilu PDIP Bambang Wuryanto or Bambang Pacul said that perhaps Puan was making fun of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"Of course I don't understand, maybe it refers to the President of Ukraine," said Bambang Pacul when contacted, Thursday, April 28. Bambang Pacul then explained about the criteria for leaders mentioned by Puan. According to him, Indonesian leaders cannot be chosen arbitrarily for many reasons. After all, continued Bambang Pacul, future Indonesian leaders must have their track records checked so that the character, capacity, and competence of the leader must be checked. , because from the track record will appear 3K (character, competence, and capacity)," he said. The PDIP legislator for the Central Java electoral district likens Indonesian leaders to cars. Bambang said, Indonesia needs a large capacity car that is ready in various fields.

"Capacity is like a cc car, we need a car with a large cc, like a 3,500 cc Jeep. Don't be a Suzuki Carry, the muddy roads get jammed!" said Bambang Pacul.