Wanti-wanti Stability Of The 2024 General Election, Jokowi Reminded Indonesia Not To Become IMF Patients Again Like Era '98

President Jokowi at the 50th PPP Harlah at ICE BSD, South Tangerang, Friday, February 17. (Jehan-VOI)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) invites all parties to actively participate in maintaining order and conduciveness nearing the 2024 General Election, which is less than a year away from organizing it. This was conveyed by Jokowi at the 50th Anniversary of the United Development Party (PPP) at ICE BSD, South Tangerang, Friday, February 17.

"I want to leave it, we all keep political stability, security stability. Because for now, it is very important and very necessary. We are threatened by global risks, which are difficult to calculate, difficult to predict, and difficult to calculate. Very difficult, "said Jokowi.

Jokowi recalled that Indonesia had been a patient of the International Monetary Fund or IMF during the 98 reform period. The economy in the country at that time collapsed and ensured that investment was opaque.

But now it's different, Indonesia has risen. Although the economy has not fully recovered, it is still affected after the pandemic, but the situation is not like the '98 era.

Jokowi also asked all parties to look forward by maintaining conduciveness so that Indonesia would no longer become a patient of the IMF, which currently amounts to 47 countries. "We were once a patient of the IMF in 1997-1998. Therefore, we must take care of this economic situation properly, lest the good economic situation be disrupted because of the election next year, next year's regional elections, this is what we must protect together," he explained.

Jokowi then mentioned a number of achievements in Indonesia, such as the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which has reached 5.31 percent in 2022. Furthermore, it has succeeded in hosting the G20 Summit in November 2022. Jokowi said that this achievement should be grateful and maintained.

"What we used to lose to China, lost to Korean countries, Japan, now we are better than them, better than China, than America, from the European Union, this is something we should be grateful for," said Jokowi. "So I warned all of us and we continue to maintain conduciveness, security and political stability so that this economic growth is not disrupted so that people's lives are also not disturbed because of the events we will do in 2024," he concluded.