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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has appointed six new ministers, one of whom is the Vice President of the Gerindra Builders Council Sandiaga One who became Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) replacing Wishnutama, on Wednesday (12/23).
Sandi joins the Indonesian Advanced Cabinet, following in the footsteps of the President General Gerindra Prabowo Subianto, who has been Minister of Defense since the beginning of the Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin administration in 2019.
Prabowo-Sandi was actually a presidential-cawapres couple in the 2019 presidential elections. They lost to the Jokowi-Ma’ruf couple in an election that was marked by deep polarization between the supporters of each couple.
The incorporation of Prabowo-Sandi into the Jokowi-Ma’ruf cabinet contrasts with the conditions of several of his supporters during the last presidential elections. Prabowo supporters are still out of government and actively criticizing Jokowi-Ma’ruf, and some are even in prison.
One of them is the Grand Imam of the Front of Islamic Defenders (FPI) Rizieq Shihab, who has been named a suspect in the crowd case, and is now incarcerated at the police headquarters.
In the run-up to and during the 2019 presidential elections, Rizieq was one of the driving forces behind the Prabowo-Sandi Ulama (Koppasandi) Winning Command volunteer statement.
Rizieq, who was still in Saudi Arabia at the time, through a voice recording invited the clerics to win Prabowo-Sandi in the presidential elections.
In equal agreement with Rizieq, the FPI leadership, including President General Shobri Lubis, was also named a suspect in the crowd case. However, Shobri has not been arrested so far.
There are several other Prabowo supporters who have been jailed, but are now free. One of them is the Dewa 19 Band leader and Party candidate Gerindra Ahmad Dhani.
 Ahmad Dhani when he followed the trial in the Surabaya District Court as a defendant in an alleged defamation case. (AMONG PHOTOS / Moch Asim) |
Dhani was jailed for making hate speech through his Twitter account, @AHMADDHANIPRAST. Dhani was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison in January 2019. He filed an appeal and his sentence was reduced to 1 year.
Still not satisfied, Dhani filed an appeal with the Supreme Court (MA). However, the Supreme Court rejected Dhani’s appeal. The Supreme Court upheld the verdict at the appeal level by sending Dhani to one year in prison.
During the course of the hate speech case, Dhani was also denounced in the ITE Act case through the ‘idiotic’ speech he made in Surabaya. In his warning, the Chief Judge of the Surabaya District Court sentenced Dhani to one year in prison in June 2019.
Until finally the East Java High Court (PT) in November 2019 granted Ahmad Dhani a 1-year prison relief to a 6-month probationary sentence.
Another Prabowo-Sandi supporter who has also been in prison is Ratna Sarumpaet. The South Jakarta District Court Judges Panel sentenced him to two years in prison in the case of spreading false news or hoaxes.
Apart from these names, there were also names of Prabowo supporters who were imprisoned in various cases such as Buni Yani for violating the ITE Law, Kivlan Zen for illegal possession of firearms, or Eggi Sudjana for alleged treason related to the ‘power of the people ‘when he delivered a speech in front of Prabowo’s residence on April 17, 2019.
Later, Polda Metro Jaya re-investigated Eggi’s alleged treason case.
 Eggi Sudjana as one of the speakers in a discussion at the Prabowo Sandi National Secretariat, Menteng, Central Jakarta, March 5, 2019. (CNN Indonesia / Andry Novelino) |
From the field of the political party, the president of the PKS, Ahmad Syaikhu, reminded Sandiaga that he should not forget the struggles of the people or people who had supported him in previous elections.
“Don’t forget the people’s struggle or the ummah. They are also involved in tourism and creative economy and other fields,” Syaikhu said in his statement on Wednesday (12/23).
He also emphasized that PKS will remain consistent in being the opposition in criticizing the government in a constructive way.
“God willing, the PKS will consistently be a critical and constructive opposition party, supporting all government programs that are favorable to the people and criticizing policies that are not on the side of the people’s interests,” Syaikhu said.
Meanwhile, Democrats, through their undersecretary general, suspect that Sandi’s appointment as Menparekraf cannot be separated from the victory of Jokowi’s son and son-in-law, Gibran Rakabuming and Bobby Nasution, in winning the 2020 Pilkada in Solo and Medan.
“Regarding the election of Sandiaga Uno, it further reinforces the public’s presumption that the people’s support for Prabowo-Sandi during the 2019 presidential elections has been used as a political bargaining tool to enter the cabinet,” said the Tuesday (12/22).
With the entry of Sandiaga into the Jokowi cabinet, the part of Gerindra’s minister remains two. This is because another Gerindra cadre, Edhy Prabowo, who has been Prabowo’s presidential aide from the beginning, has been removed from his post as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries because he is suspected of corruption in the export of fingerlings.
And, after Jokowi’s inauguration of the minister today, Sandiaga and Prabowo will have offices at Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat in central Jakarta.
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