By: Ajeng Mufadillah
The Presidential Election Contest (Pilpres) 2019 still keeps the “hot weather” of politics. Begins with each other claiming victory between Candidate 01, Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin and Prabowo-Sandi, Paslon 02 shortly after the voting day (April 17), armed with the results of the vote count for each camp.
Political observer from Sheikh Yusuf Islamic University (UNIS), Adib Miftahul said, to make political conditions cool, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) sent the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan (LBP) to meet with presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto. But the meeting was postponed.
Adib said, culminating in the decision of the 2019 Presidential Election winner set by the General Election Commission (KPU) on May 21, 2019, which won candidate pair 01 ended with the May 22 Action. Peaceful action that led to chaos, according to police allegedly ridden by a third party. The effect is that the political situation never ceases. Still hot, even the May 22 action was turned into a commodity by individual political elites, to continue attacking each other’s arguments.
For the second time, President Jokowi on his initiative to send Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) to meet with Prabowo Subianto on Thursday night May 23. The result is almost the same, the conditions are not much different from the diplomacy conducted by LBP. In fact, Jokowi claimed not to know about the outcome of the meeting, because he had not met and communicated with JK.
He revealed, the current political conditions only rely on the central figures, namely Jokowi and Prabowo. The second meeting is believed to be a panacea to end the rivalry that threatens the divisions of the nation’s children. Jokowi and Prabowo met, made a few statements to the Indonesian people, then this political dispute was over.
According to him, President Jokowi has a trump card that can bridge the current political conflict. He is TNI (Ret.) Ryamizard Ryacudu, minister of Defense. The 1974 Indonesian Military Academy alumni were a force with Lieutenant General TNI (Ret.) Prabowo Subianto.
The second meeting is expected to be an antidote to rivalry that threatens national disunity. When the two figures meet and make a few statements to the people, then this political dispute is over.