JAKARTA - Gerindra Party politician Fadli Zon criticized the response of President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) working visit to Jambi to the aspirations of local residents.
On the sidelines of the visit, a man carrying a poster that reads "Pak Jokowi Lowers Cooking Oil Prices" was secured by the authorities.
"Democracy is increasingly being castrated," said Fadli Zon through his Twitter account, @fadlizon, Friday, April 8th.
In the video clip circulating, the man was detained by members of the TNI. The poster that the man had laid out was finally taken down and brought by TNI members.
When several members of the TNI were arrested, the man kept shouting, "Put the cooking oil down." When President Jokowi's entourage had passed, the man was released by the authorities.
President Jokowi is known to be working in Jambi on Thursday, April 7th. Jokowi had time to distribute cooking oil BLT amounting to Rp. 300,000 at the Angso Duo Baru People's Market.
"This morning I came to the Angso Duo Market in Jambi City, Jambi Province, in order to provide BLT for Cooking Oil of Rp. 300,000 which we hope can alleviate, subsidize the community, especially street vendors who sell fried foods," Jokowi said in a broadcast. pers.
Jokowi plans to provide similar assistance in addition to Jambi. Jokowi also asked that the assistance could be distributed to the recipient community before Eid 2022.
"We have given it earlier and we hope that it will not only be here, later in all provinces in the country, cooking oil BLT can be distributed immediately. I have asked for it to be completed before Lebaran, a week before Lebaran," he said.
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