West Java Gubernatorial Election 2024 Is Predicted To Be Lively, From PSSI Chairman, Famous Singer To Ex-Corruptor Are In

The famous Indonesian singer who is now involved in politics, Desy Ratnasari (left) and PSSI Chair Iwan Bule (right). (Instagram-doc PSSI)

JABAR - Residents of West Java (Jabar) Province will choose their leaders in the 2024 West Java Governor and Deputy Governor Election. The 5-year political event attracted a number of figures to participate in the match.

Although the electoral political celebration only lasted about 2 years, a number of figures began to imply their interest in competing in the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election.

The West Java gubernatorial election does have a strong magnet, as evidenced by a number of politicians, politicians cum artists, incumbents, and retired high-ranking Polri officers, showing a signal of their readiness to compete for the West Java 1 seat.

The latest news is that the former Mayor of Bandung, Dada Rosada, who was officially released from Sukamiskin Prison on leave before being released (CMB), Friday, August 26, stated his readiness to run in the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election.

Dada Rosada is a convict in a bribery case in the handling of the appeal fund for social assistance from the Bandung City Government in 2009-2010.

At that time the media crew asked about his political steps after leaving Sukamiskin Prison. However, if asked to run in the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election by the community, Dada Rosada said it was willing and would prepare for it.

"If there is a request from the public, why not take the political offer," he said.

The day before, or on Thursday, August 25, the chairman of the All-Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) Komjen Pol. (Ret.) Mochamad Iriawan also gave a signal that he was ready to run in the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election.

A number of supports from other parties are claimed to have been large, so the man who is familiarly called Iwan Bule feels confident to move forward even though he still seems a little shy.

The former mayor of Bandung and the defendant in the bribery case of the Bandung City Government social assistance funds in 2009-2010, Dada Rosada. (Antara-Agus Bebeng)

Iwan Bule expressed his gratitude to a number of parties who encouraged him to run as a candidate for the Governor of West Java.

For him, the support from a number of parties is a matter of pride as well as trust that must be appreciated.

A number of reasons that underlie support for Iwan Bule, among others, are Sundanese blood factors that flow in his body. He was indeed raised in West Java.

Iwan has also served as the West Java Regional Police Chief and Acting Governor of West Java. The two positions are considered as other reasons for a number of parties to encourage Iwan Bule to run in the regional political contestation.

However, until now Iwan Bule has not mentioned the political party that will carry him as a candidate for governor of the 2024 gubernatorial election.

He admitted that he still wanted to focus first on carrying out his duties as chairman of PSSI. Iwan has a tough task of lifting Indonesia's football achievements in the international arena.

Based on Antara's report, a similar readiness to run in the West Java gubernatorial election was also stated by the Deputy Governor of West Java Uu Ruzhanul Ulum.

At the National Coordination Meeting of the Expert Council of the Central Executive Board of PPP in Bandung City in mid-July 2022, PPP General Chair Suharso Monoarfa firmly encouraged cadres who are also Deputy Governors of West Java Uu Ruzhanul Ulum to become candidates for Governor of West Java in the 2024 gubernatorial election.

The pair of Governor and Deputy Governor of West Java Ridwan Kamil (left) and Uu Ruzhanul Ulum (right). (Antara-Great R)

Suharso instructed the party management so that PPP in the 2024 election could reach 10 to 12 seats in the West Java Provincial DPRD. In the 2019 election, West Java PPP only placed three representatives in the provincial DPRD.

If the PPP seat achievement in the West Java Provincial DPRD can be achieved, said Suharso, PPP can accommodate candidates for governor.

Responding to this, Uu Ruzhanul Ulum expressed his gratitude for the trust of the General Chairperson of PPP in him.

Uu assessed that running as a candidate for Governor of West Java was not an easy step because apart from having to get party support, it also needed adequate electability.

Therefore, he began to strive from now on regarding the encouragement of the party leadership where he belongs.

Even Uu Ruzhanul Ulum said he was ready if PPP assigned him to partner with the Chairman of the West Java PAN DPW Desy Ratnasari in the 2024 West Java Governor and Deputy Governor Election.

Desy Ratnasari Into West Java Gubernatorial Election?

The last figure who stated that he was ready to take part in the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election was Desy Ratnasari.

As a politician who started her life as a role and singer artist, Desy Ratnasari does have high popularity. However, in political contestation alone, popularity alone is not enough because it still has to be supported by electability, which among other things is collected from the political work in question.

Desy Ratnasari, who serves as Chairman of the West Java PAN DPW, said she was ready if PAN was assigned directly to run in the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election.

However, so far Desy has said that there have been no specific issues discussed regarding the gubernatorial election. Currently, the West Java PAN DPW is still focusing on preparing for regional work meetings or regional working meetings simultaneously, one of which is to raise the names of the presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2024 presidential election.

Based on the results of the 2019 General Election, the Gerindra Party won the most votes in West Java, followed by PDIP, PKS, Golkar, and PKB. So far, the five largest voting parties in Tanah Sunda have not publicly submitted the names that will be carried out in the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election. The PAN is in the seventh position under the Democrats who are in sixth place.

However, the emergence of a number of names that will enliven the 2024 West Java gubernatorial election at this time is proof that political contestation is a magnet that has always attracted many to compete to become leaders.

For political fighters, there is no mention of losing before playing the game until the end of the competition.