Heru Budi Changes Anies' Heritage Slogan To "Jakarta Success For Indonesia", PDIP: We Should Be Proud

Acting Governor of DKI Heru Budi H received a jersey numbered 1 when receiving a visit from Persija Jakarta management, at DKI City Hall Wednesday, November 30 afternoon. (Instagram Permrov DKI)

JAKARTA - The chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Gembong Warsono, supports the decision of the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Heru Budi Hartono, to change the Jakarta slogan "Collaboration City" to "Jakarta Success for Indonesia".

According to Gembong, the people of Jakarta should be proud of this new slogan. This is because Heru wants to make Jakarta the foundation for Indonesia's success, ahead of the transfer of the State Capital (IKN) to the archipelago, East Kalimantan.

"From this new slogan, Jakarta is used as the foundation for the success of this republic. This is also a trigger for motivation for all stakeholders that Jakarta's success is its success for Indonesia. We should be proud," said Gembong when contacted, Tuesday, December 13.

Gembong also assessed that Heru did not want to eliminate the spirit of collaboration between the DKI Provincial Government and the public from Anies' old slogan.

In fact, continued Gembong, Heru views that the foundation of collaboration in Jakarta has been formed at this time. Then, to deliver the transfer of IKN, Heru wants to make Jakarta a more conducive city.

"So, actually, it should not be assumed that Mr. Heru denied what Mr. Anies had done through Jakarta, Collaborative City. No. Mr. Heru considers the foundation to have been built. When the collaboration has been built, we will increase it to the success of Jakarta for Indonesia," explained Gembong.

For information, in recent times, the public has highlighted the change in the slogan initiated by Anies. One of them is the replacement of the design "City of Collaboration" with the logo + Jakarta to "Suces Jakarta for Indonesia" on billboards on the highway.

This slogan replacement is also applied on the social media of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. When Anies was still in office, the upload of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government Instagram account, @dkijakarta, used the hashtag #boxolaboration. Now, the hashtag has been changed to #SuksesJakarta for Indonesia.

The change in hashtags provoked various netizens' reactions. Not many netizens have criticized the change in the slogan on Instagram to Twitter.

Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Communication, Information and Statistics Agency, Raides Aryanto explained the reason for the change in the slogan.

Raides said that the Jakarta Success slogan for Indonesia, which is juxtaposed with the official logo of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, is a manifestation of the role of Jakarta's development for Indonesia in the future which will experience a change in the capital city.

"Regarding the slogan 'Jakarta Success for Indonesia', the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government will prepare a Governor's Decree (SK) for the use of the slogan in the future. This is to support, as well as invite the people of Jakarta, to work together to deliver the capital city from Jakarta to the archipelago," said Raides.

However, Raides emphasized that the DKI Provincial Government has not changed the +Jakarta logo that has been used in Anies' leadership. "So, there is no new logo to replace the PlusJakarta logo," he said.