By: Muhammad Yasin *
Just counting the days, Indonesia’s democratic party will reach its peak. The general election of the President and Vice President will be held simultaneously on 17 April 2019. Surely the presidential and vice-presidential candidates from both parties are busy preparing themselves optimally. This is to win the position of president and vice president who will be held for the next five years (2019-2024).
In addition to the two presidential and vice presidential partners, their supporters will have mixed feelings, like a bride waiting for their wedding day. A kind of cheerful expression that hasn’t been conveyed or channeled.
Indonesian people also hope that elected leaders will bring fresh changes to the progress of the nation during their leadership period. Whoever the leader is, they are the best sons of the nation of Indonesia. In fact, the two presidential and vice presidential candidates can be called representatives of the character of the Indonesian people who have a leadership spirit and can be role models for everyone. KPU itself has presented such evidence in the presidential and vice presidential debate in several sessions.
With the presence of a good state leader, of course the people hope to get peace and peace in their lives. In this case, the community certainly must wisely choose the candidate leader based on the actions shown by the two prospective leaders. And it is not based on the words of a group of people who want to confuse people’s thoughts (imposing their will covertly through activities that are said to be peaceful).
But, of course, Indonesian society consists of intelligent people who are sensitive to turbulent political phenomena in this country. So that people have guessed the direction of the purpose of covert political campaign activities carried out by a handful of these groups.
Some time ago, the FUI (Islamic People’s Forum) along with several other community organizations such as FPI (Islamic Defenders Front), Presidium Alumni (PA) 212, National Movement for Guidance for Ulema Fatwa (GNPF-U), etc., had held an action called “313 Community Alert Apple” to ask the KPU not to commit any fraudulent actions in the April 17 2019 election. The action was held on March 31, 2019. The action was peaceful. How come? They held an action on Sunday where the KPU office was off. No KPU representative responded to this “313 People’s Alert Apple” action.
The action pioneered by FUI seems to have a certain tendency. In this case, it wants to delegitimize the KPU (General Election Commission) as a state institution that organizes elections independently. As is known by FUI and mass organizations present in the “313 Community Alert Apples” in the camp of one of the presidential and vice presidential pairs.
Did the KPU play around in holding the 2019 election? Certainly not so. Why? Because people who are under the roof of KPU and KPUD are professionals. They did not become members of the KPU and KPUD because they were chosen, but through super tight selection. Such people have no doubt about their professionalism, then their neutrality, integrity and accountability.
We, as part of Indonesia – Sabang to Merauke – should be wise and smart in making choices while choosing the things that need to be followed. It should be noted, if the action of the “313 Community Alert Apples”, held by people from FUI, HRS (Habib Rizieq Shihab), and PA 212 has a covert mission that is packaged.
It is not impossible that there is a message of an invisible political campaign to lead the public’s mind to choose one particular presidential and vice presidential couple. In addition, there is a kind of invisible invitation to delegitimize KPU / KPUD.
In fact, clearly, the two independent state institutions have struggled to show their best performance.
Before ending this article, when the action of the “313 Community Alert Apple” was over, HRS immediately wrote on his personal Twitter account that a 7 April 2019 political campaign would be held with an invitation to “Come
Put GBK aside! Come on Putting Down Jakarta! “
No matter what the choice of political parties or presidential and vice presidential couples, set it in your heart. We unite the determination and strength to advance the NKRI (Unitary Republic of Indonesia) to the forefront. For KPU / KPUD, we will be in line to continue to support you. Show the best work performance that is owned as a state institution for the implementation of this 2019 election.
- The author is an observer of social and political problems
