Rich crazy young man entered the cabinet, PKB politician named Jokowi forced

JAKARTA – The entry of a series of young entrepreneurs who have abundant wealth or are called rich crazy in the post-public care center cabinet reshuffle which took place on December 23, 2020. Sandiaga Uno and Muhammad Lutfi for example, these two people joined the long list of ministers Jokowi those with backgrounds of wealthy entrepreneurs, namely, Nadiem Makarim and Erick Thohir.

In this regard, the president of the DPP’s National Awakening Party (PKB), Faisol Riza, emphasized that this does not mean that those who are not crazy rich cannot join the cabinet. Only their efforts should be greater than those of the crazy rich. But, according to him, there is something more important than that, namely how Jokowi can choose these crazy rich people.

“The question we need to ask ourselves is, was it true that they were elected by Pak Jokowi or were they actually forcing Pak Jokowi to vote?” Faisol said in an online discussion by the Forum of Political Journalists (FJP) titled “Crazy Rich Who Enter Cabinet: Reading Plutocracy in the Jokowi Era “, Sunday (12/27/2020). (Read it too: Crazy Rich enters cabinet, Jokowi sets the stage for potential presidential candidates in 2024

Faisol admitted that this question was a bit provocative, but invited the webinar participants to review the situation in the 2019 presidential elections. There are 3 groups that support Jokowi, political parties (parpol) that have tickets for the presidential elections, volunteers they have worked hard and many bite their fingers. because they have been neglected and the entrepreneurs, mostly young entrepreneurs, have contributed to helping Jokowi become president.

“This seems, of course, as an exception, Sandi and maybe some Lutfi (part of the presidential and external competitors),” he said.

Hearing the explanation from the ISEAS researcher Made Supriatma, Faisol said, there is a kind of new corporate power that is currently growing and trying to seize power, be it for the 2024 presidential elections, for themselves or for the Indonesian nation . So these are the new and young elites who will fill the 20-30 years that will intersect between business, economics and politics.

“These are the names that will exist in power and business,” Faisol said. (Read it too: Sandi enters the Jokowi cabinet, who benefits in the presidential elections of 2024? )

For this reason, this Senayan politician prefers to be suspicious of those who coerce or force Jokowi to choose them to enter the cabinet. Jokowi may not have too many options with a COVID-19 situation like this, where the Indonesian economy is part of a collapsing global economy and is trying to find a way out at the slightest opportunity.