n his never-ending quest to discover a political occasion to name dwelling, former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s identify has now been thrown into the combo of potential candidates to contest the upcoming race for the chairmanship of the Indonesian Solidarity Get together (PSI). The nascent occasion has no legislative seats, however it has a fair proportion of energy inside President Prabowo Subianto’s authorities.
Based in 2014 as a contemporary face championing progressive beliefs in a unclean system, a decade later, its political maneuvers have confirmed no completely different from the political events it initially vilified.
Following its unsuccessful bid to enter the stage of nationwide politics within the 2019 elections, the PSI wanted to search out one other strategy to achieve reputation and wiggle its method into the Home of Representatives. Ignoring all potential moral considerations, the occasion determined to nominate Kaesang Pangarep, Jokowi’s youngest son and a politic novice, to guide it simply two days after he grew to become a member.
After failing but once more to fulfill the electoral threshold within the 2024 polls, the PSI is eyeing a much bigger fish to take its helm: Jokowi. Every seems poised to learn mutually from formalizing their ties, as the previous president stands to realize a legit political platform whereas the occasion can achieve the recognition enhance it must burst onto the scene.
Get together officers insist Jokowi should be a registered member to hitch the chairmanship race, which is able to undertake the “one individual, one vote” precept so all members have an equal say on who will lead them.
Analysts have prompt that Jokowi’s try and take over his son’s political occasion is a mere formality, since he virtually runs the PSI by means of Kaesang. Conversely, Jokowi’s public enthusiasm to run for the chairmanship appears to be like determined, maybe even signaling his weakening grip on nationwide politics.
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It’s no secret that the Prabowo administration has Jokowi loyalists. The Vice President is his eldest son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, whereas the North Sumatra governor is his son-in-law, Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution. Over a dozen Cupboard members even have ties to the ex-president together with Power Minister Bahlil Lahadalia, who can be chair of the Golkar Get together, the nation’s second-largest occasion.
