So PSI Jakarta And Critics Manager Anies, Who Is Michael Victor Sianipar?

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YOGYAKARTA - Michael Victor Sianipar's figure drew attention after he declared himself resigned from the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) membership in DKI Jakarta. Then, who is Michael Victor Sianipar actually?

Quoted from various sources, Michael Victor Sianipar is a politician born in 1991. He is a political science graduate from Yonsei University, South Korea.

Michael Victor Sianipar is not new to politics. He has been pursuing his career since 2012. At that time he became the campaign assistant for the Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who ran for Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta who was paired with Joko Widodo as a candidate for governor. After Jokowi-Ahok was elected, Michael was appointed as the personal staff of the Deputy Governor of DKI.

Michael was also a legislative candidate from the Gerindra Party. At the age of 23, he tried to run for the DPR, but he failed. After that he decided to join PSI in 2015.

At PSI, Michael Victor's career is quite good. He was even appointed as the leader of PSI Central Jakarta for the 2015-2017 period. Michael's work was getting worse at PSI, it was proven that he managed to secure 8 seats in the DKI Jakarta DPRD in the 2019 election. At that time PSI won more than 500 thousand votes. This made PSI a political party with the fourth largest vote from 16 political parties.

Michael is increasingly attracting the attention of the people of DKI because he criticized the transparency of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government's budget, which at that time was under the leadership of Governor Anies Baswedan. In addition, PSI is also one of the parties that proposes the right to interpellate the implementation of Formula E.

Michael Victor Sianipar has now resigned as Chairman of the DKI Jakarta PSI DPW as well as a member of the party. After his decision, there was a lot of speculation discussing the fate of Michael Victor Sianipar in the future. One of the speculations that emerged was that he would switch to support Anies Baswedan who will run for Presidential Candidate in 2024.

Related to this, Michael said that he would support the presidential candidate who has tickets for the 2024 presidential election. However, it has not been clearly explained who he will support. What is clear is that he admitted that he had received offers from several parties to join. He also did not dismiss the question of whether he would support Anies Baswedan later.

"Yes, I support the presidential candidate who has a ticket. Now you don't have a ticket yet," said Michael when contacted by the media crew, quoted on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.

Michael Victor Sianipar is also rumored to have a close relationship with Anies Baswedan. This assumption arose because while still serving as governor, Anies donated Rp2.7 billion through the DKI Jakarta APBD to Michael as the International Youth Summit (Y20) fund, a youth dialogue forum from G20 member countries. Michael himself served as Chairman of the 20th Youth Summit (Y20 Summit).

In addition, Michael also defended Anies, who on November 3, 2022 received an attack from social media activist, Ade Armando, who said that Anies would fail if Christians were united. Related to this, Michael said that Ade Armando threw a split narrative and smelled of SARA.

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