Jokowi Approves Gibran: He's An Adult, So He's Not Too Mixed With His Business

President Joko Widodo when he was the supervisor of the Santri Day Ceremony at the Surabaya Heroes Monument, East Java, Sunday (22/10/2024). (ANTARA/HO-PBNU)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo prays for and approves his son's decision, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, which was recommended by the Golkar Party as a candidate for vice president (cawapres) Prabowo Subianto. "Parents only pray for and approve of all decisions (Gibran). Because they are mature, don't interfere too much," said Jokowi after becoming the coach of the Santri Day Ceremony at the Surabaya Heroes Monument, East Java, Sunday, October 22, was confiscated by Antara. Regarding Gibran's certainty that he would partner with Prabowo in the 2024 presidential election, Jokowi was also reluctant to provide certainty. He asked the media crew to directly ask the coalition of political parties that carry Prabowo Subianto as a presidential candidate in 2024. "Ask political parties, it is the territory of political parties, or coalitions of political parties, or coalitions of political parties, not the president's business," he said.

Based on the schedule set by the General Elections Commission (KPU), the registration of prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates is scheduled to start from October 19 to November 25, 2023. As stipulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election which meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of the nationally valid votes in the previous election of members of the DPR. Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. It could also be that candidate pairs are promoted by political parties or coalition parties participating in the 2019 Election with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.