By: Aji Iskandar *
Presidential Candidate No. 01 Joko Widodo suspects the pair Prabowo Subianto – Sandiaga Uno used foreign consultants to face the 2019 presidential election. Initially, Jokowi explained the Russian propaganda theory which often spread insistent hoaxes to the public so that people became hesitant about the actual facts. According to Jokowi, the foreign consultant did not think about the impacts in carrying out his strategy in people’s lives.
“Do not think whether to divide the people or not, do not think of disturbing the peace of the people or not. This makes people worried or not, it doesn’t matter. The consultant is a foreign consultant. Then who is the foreign stooge? Do not let us be treated continuously by lies. The people are smart, both in the city or in the village, “said Jokowi while attending a support event from Sedulur Kayu and Jokowi furniture in Karanganyar, Central Java.
In line with the words of Jokowi, the Chairperson of the KOI who was also the Chair of the Jokowi-Amin National Campaign Team (EK), Erick Thohir, confirmed the statement of the former Mayor of Solo, stating that Prabowo used foreign consultants. From the beginning, he knew there was involvement of foreigners who helped Prabowo’s BPN – Sandi. Even the evidence related to foreign consultants has spread on social media. On social media it has also been proven the existence of foreigners behind the BPN. Russian propaganda is what foreign consultants use. And his side also knew, that he knew the consultant was not just one or two.
Hasto Krisyanto stated that he had been a witness to Prabowo using foreign consultants while advancing in the 2009 presidential election. At that time, Prabowo became vice president and accompanied Megawati Sukarnoputri. He claimed that he was witnessing how Prabowo used foreign consultants. And recommendations were greatly influenced by the foreign consultant. Hasto also added that at that time Megawati did not want to follow the recommendations received by Prabowo from foreign consultants. The reason is that the recommendations submitted are sometimes not in accordance with the culture of Indonesia.
Alleged Prabowo – Sandi uses a foreign consultant, referring to the campaign used by his challenger camp, namely by using the Russian propaganda campaign method, known as the Russian Firehouse of Falsehood. Jokowi suspected that the technique was used by Prabowo, who was sourced from foreign political consultants he hired. In fact, Jokowi’s evaluation of the method with lies was disturbing the people.
One of the lies that have been rife is the lie of 7 ballot container trucks being broken. In addition there is also a hoax Ratna Sarumpaet who claimed that she was mistreated which turned out to be proven to be plastic surgery, at that time she joined the team of the National BPN Winning Body Prabowo – Sandi.
“In the era of openness like today, Prabowo – Sandi BPN just can’t avoid the many digital tracks related to the presence of foreign consultants in their camp,” said spokesman for TKN Jokowi – Ma’ruf, Ace Hasan Syadzily.
Ace questioned the scattered photos showing there were two foreign women and men, they were in a room with Prabowo – Sandiaga. In the photo there are other figures such as the Democratic Party Secretary Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a number of elites from the Indonesia Fair and Prosperous Coalition. Ace also mentioned that the Prabowo-Sandiaga stronghold again propaganda hoaxes by linking Jokowi with US political consultant, Stanley Greenberg. According to him, similar issues have also emerged during the 2014 Presidential Election.
The issue of hoax was then developed by the Prabowo camp to mention that what Jokowi did as a form of imaging. But the issue of hoax is not selling because it is fictional, aka hoax and not based on facts. On another occasion, a foreign man suddenly came to the presidential candidate number 02 Prabowo Subianto, in the courtyard of the JCC Plenary Hall, Jakarta, where the Gerindra Party officials would hold the ‘Indonesia Menang’ National Speech with their partner Sandiaga Uno.
At that time, the political elites who were walking hand in hand opened a special room for men who were “suspected” as Prabowo’s political consultants in the 2019 Presidential Election. There was widespread news in the community if Prabowo-Sandi’s BPN used the services of foreign consultants to regulate their winning strategy. Rumors that surfaced, Rob Allyn and Ariel Israilov allegedly designed a strategy of frying issues from behind the scenes to sting the election battle between Prabowo and Jokowi.
For 25 years in the media business, Allyn has served as a political strategist for the president, prime minister, foreign government and political parties in charge of advertising, public relations and political consultants. Noted, he is a Republican supporter in the United States led by George W. Bush. In his strategy to campaign with Allyn, Bush stressed that he would fight terrorism, whose image was attached to Islam. Bush’s strategy succeeded in attracting a majority of the people of the United States, to elect him as number 1 in the entire country of Uncle Sam.
In the second contest in 2004, Bush again included Rob Allyn as the designator of the victory so that Bush could resume the throne of leadership in the United States. Rob Allyn is also known as a special propaganda maker to bring down political opponents and discredit him.
In Indonesia, in 2014, Rob Allyn was called as a political consultant who helped Prabowo in the 2014 presidential election process. At that time, his political opponents were exposed to the issue of SARA of Chinese descent and accused of being communists. Rob Allyn is also thought to be the brains behind the instability of the economic well-being of the Indonesian people, not to mention if it is related to the crackdown on criminalization of figures who oppose the government to cause a volume-bound demonstration in a number of regions of Indonesia.The author is an observer of social and political problems