Heru, Marullah And Bahtiar: Prospective Candidates For The Governor Of DKI Who Is Considered The DPRD To Be The Most Expert Of Jakarta's Problems

Illustration of the DKI Jakarta DPRD meeting. (VOI-Diah)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta DPRD is moving faster in proposing candidates for the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta from the time limit set by the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri).

The Ministry of Home Affairs asked the Kebon Sirih parliament to propose three names of candidates for the Acting Governor of DKI until September 16. Yesterday, Tuesday, September 13, the DPRD has determined the names of three candidates to replace Anies Baswedan who will lead Jakarta from October 17 until the Governor of DKI has just been sworn in according to the results of the 2024 General Election.

This was obtained from the results of a joint leadership meeting (rapimgab) of nine factions of the DKI DPRD. Each faction has three names proposed. Thus, a total of 27 votes will be gathered to screen the candidate for Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta.

As a result, four names were netted, namely the Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono, Regional Secretary of DKI Jakarta Province Marullah Matali, Director General of Polpum Kemendagri Bahtiar, and Deputy IV Presidential Chief of Staff for Information and Political Communication Juri Ardiantoro.

From the results of a meeting chaired by the Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi, it was shown that Heru got 9 votes, Marullah 9 votes, Bahtiar 6 votes, and the jury got 3 votes. Automatically, the name of the jury died to be proposed by the DPRD to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

"So, the name that was filtered to be submitted to the Minister of Home Affairs, first Heru Budi Hartono, second Marullah Matali, third Bahtiar. Is this approved?" said Prasetyo at the DKI Jakarta DPRD building while tapping the hammer to sign the approval of the council members, Tuesday, September 13.

The names of Heru, Marullah, and Bahtiar will be brought to the Ministry of Home Affairs for the three names of the candidates for the Acting Governor of the DKI Jakarta DPRD proposal will be juxtaposed with three other names chosen by the Ministry of Home Affairs. In the end, President Joko Widodo will choose one of the names to serve as Acting Governor of DKI.

Prasetyo said that the DPRD agreed to view that Heru, Marullah, and Bahtiar had met the criteria as candidates for the Acting Governor of DKI. Apart from being echelon I, the three have also been involved in regional government positions.

"Mr. Bahtiar from the ministry and has served as Acting Governor (Pj) of Riau Islands, Marullah as Secretary of DKI and was once Mayor of South Jakarta, Pak Heru has also been Mayor of North Jakarta and (Head of Bureau) of KDH era Pak Jokowi. I think he is qualified," said Prasetyo.

When one of the three names was chosen by President Joko Widodo as Acting Governor of DKI in the next two years, Prasetyo hoped that the problems that occurred in Jakarta could be resolved, especially flooding, which is a classic problem.

"Whatever the story is, you must know the problem of Jakarta. So, Jakarta cannot be played with because 1 kilometer from the Palace still has upstream areas, flooded areas," said the PDIP politician.