Criticism of retiring DPRD DKI members, PAN founder: Very shameful. Page all

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – One of the founders and senior politician of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Abdillah Toha joked about the attitude of the DKI Jakarta DPRD members who left the meeting room o go out when the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) faction spoke in plenary session.

He found the actions of the people’s representatives shameful. In addition, the action was carried out due to the previous attitude of the PSI against the increase of salaries and benefits for the members of the DKI DPRD.

“Yes, it is very shameful. These young people are fighting to be critical, then cornered by the big parties. How do the representatives of the people behave like this,” Abdillah Toha said when contacted. Kompas.com, Tuesday (12/15/2020).

Abdillah emphasized that PSI’s attitude of being open about the fantastic budget for salaries and benefits for DPRD members was the right attitude.

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This is because APBD preparation must involve the community.

“The APBD has the form of a regional regulation, and that loss must involve the public, NGOs or mass organizations. The opinion of the public must be asked,” Abdillah said.

“It shouldn’t be PSI that opened the budget. DPRD should have opened it,” continued Abdillah, who was a member of DPR RI from 2004-2009.

Therefore, Abdillah as founder and senior politician of the PAN did not hesitate to criticize the attitude of the members of the DKI DPRD.

He emphasized this position at the same time as he criticized his young people who were part of the PAN faction of the DKI DPRD.

“Yes, this is for everyone, the parties that have no shame,” he said.

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All members of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, except the PSI faction, left the plenary meeting room (go out) Monday (12/14/2020) afternoon.

The action took place when the ISP faction would read aloud the faction’s overview of the Draft Regional Regulation on the Amendments to Regional Regulation Number 1 of 2014 on the Detailed Regulation of Spatial Planning and Zoning.

This action was preceded by a statement of disappointment transmitted by a member of the Golkar DPRD DKI Jakarta faction, Jamaludin.

He asked whether the general opinion of the faction to be conveyed was a statement from the Jakarta DPW PSI or the PSI DPRD DKI Jakarta faction.

Because previously, the PSI faction approved the draft Annual Work Plan (RKT) for the DKI DPRD that contained salary increases and benefits. However, this was later denied by the PSI DPW.

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Therefore, if public opinion is not approved by DPW PSI, then Jamaludin is not ready to hear public opinion to be read.

“What has been agreed (RKT) does not happen, the party does not recognize it. If it does not (recognize it), I will not be willing to listen. I will go,” said Jamaludin in the plenary meeting room of the DKI Jakarta DPRD building, the Monday afternoon.

The statement was met with applause from other members of the DKI Jakarta DPRD who also attended the plenary session.

After delivering his statement, Jamaludin left the meeting room and was followed by other members of the DKI DPRD, except for members of the PSI faction.

This action lasted until the chairman of the PSI faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Idris Ahmad, finished reading the overview of the faction.

Then when the DKI Jakarta DPRD members of the Nasdem Jupiter faction began to express the general view of the faction, the DPRD members who go out back to their seats.