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JAKARTA – Presenter Najwa Shihab spoke about the police report presented by Jokowi Unified Volunteers President Silvia Devi on the interview for the empty seat of Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto.
“I just found out about this report from friends of the media, I don’t know exactly what the basis of the report is, including the alleged articles. I heard that Polda Metro Jaya rejected the report,” Najwa said when confirmed by reporters, on Tuesday (10/6/2020). .
Najwa, who is usually called Nana, explained that the empty chair interview was intended so that the Minister of Health, Terawan Agus Putranto, would like to provide information on the management of Covid-19. According to him, Terawan, who has played an important role in managing the crown recently, has appeared less frequently in public giving explanations.
“Not only in Najwa’s eyes and from time to time, more and more parties ask about the presence and proportion of the Minister of Health in handling the pandemic,” he explained.
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“These are the factors that prompted me to make programs that appeared on the YouTube channel and on Narasi’s social networks. The questions I asked also came from the public, both experts, institutions that have been concerned about the management of pandemics and citizens. common from the beginning, “he said.
Nana added that interviews for vacant positions have never been conducted in Indonesia. However, this has often been done abroad.
“It is common in countries that have a long history of freedom of the press. In the United States this has been done even since 2012, including Piers Morgan on CNN and Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC The Last Word, in 2019 in England, Andrew Neil, also a BBC reporter, presenting an empty seat that was originally filled by Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, who often declined invitations from the BBC, ”he said.
“Kay Burley did the same on Sky News when Conservative Party leader James Cleverly was not present at the event,” Nana said.
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Najwa made sure to cooperate if she needed to be asked for information about her self-report. “If an examination is necessary, of course I am ready to provide information to the official institution that has the authority to do so,” he said.
(Ari)
