Meeting At The Palace, Cak Imin Calls President Jokowi Asks Political Parties To Keep The Atmosphere Cool Ahead Of The 2024 General Election

Chairman Muhaimin Iskandar and PKB DPP administrators gave a press statement after being received by President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the PKB DPP Muhaimin Iskandar said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) asked political parties (political parties) to maintain a calm and family atmosphere ahead of the 2024 General Election (Pemilu). “He ordered an atmosphere like this to be maintained. The atmosphere is cool, the atmosphere is family, and conducive. He asked to be maintained by the party, ” said Muhaimin or Cak Imin after meeting with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Antara, Monday, October 31. Cak Imin and high-ranking PKB DPP officials were received by President Jokowi on Monday. The agenda for the PKB DPP meeting and the President, said Cak Imin, was related to the recommendation from the meeting of around 5,000 main PKB cadres in Jakarta on 28-30 October 2022. Cak Imin explained that PKB officials and the President did not discuss special matters regarding the 2024 General Election. The President only gave a general message to PKB as one of the political parties participating in the 2024 General Election that it was important to maintain political stability. President Jokowi, said Cak Imin, did not discuss presidential candidates or party coalition maps ahead of the 2024 General Election. “ Not discussed about the coalition and how. He left it entirely to PKB,” said Cak Imin. PKB has just held a grand meeting “Road to Election 2024 ” on Sunday (30/10). The meeting was attended by the General Chairperson of the Gerindra DPP who is also the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto. In the meeting of PKB cadres on Sunday (30/10), a number of recommendations were also produced for the government, namely the reduction in fuel prices for motorcycles and public transportation, the priority of fertilizer subsidies for farmers with small land area, millennial generation empowerment, priority for electricity subsidies for the poor and revision of Presidential Regulation Number 33 of 2022 concerning Regional Unit Price Standards.