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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.TV – The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, recounted how Indonesia’s sixth president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, wept under pressure from the masses.
He broadcast it on the CSIS Indonesia webinar with the topic Organizing Pilkada in the middle of a pandemic on Wednesday (10/14/2020).
Mahfud MD reflected on the way Pilkada and Pilpres were celebrated for 15 years. According to Mahfud, the implementation of the Pilkada chosen by the DPRD, namely Law Number 22 of 2014, has become a separate polemic because it will provoke collusion and nepotism.
The SBY administration and the DPR at the time agreed that the Pilkada was only conducted by members of the DPRD or, in other words, it did not involve the community in the democratic process.
However, the move by the government and the RPD has sparked protests from civil society.
“At the time, the civil society attacks on the SBY government were extraordinary, (some say) Pak SBY is destroying democracy, all kinds of things,” Mahfud said.
According to Mahfud MD, pressure from various parties and society brought SBY to tears on the plane while traveling to the United States.
“From the news that Pak SBY could not bear to see the impact, it is said that he cried on the plane on the way, not loud,” said Mahfud.
Mahfud MD also spoke about the 2014 presidential elections between Jokowi and Prabowo Subianto fighting.
