KPU’s Response to SBY Event Walk Out in the Event of the Peace Campaign Declaration
CIDISS. On the declaration of a peaceful campaign held at Monas on Sunday, September 23, 2019, the chairman of the Democrat Party Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) chose to walk out, the widespread attributes and yells of projo volunteers as the group passed in front of the state palace. consider it to be a provocative trigger for SBY to leave the accompaniment of the declaration of a peaceful campaign.
SBY took a golf cart together with PAN Zulkifli Hasan, PAN Secretary General Eddy Soeparno, the two sons of SBY Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono and Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono in the car, Eddy Soeparno who was present at the time explained the chronology, the group tended to be provocative by shouting yel. “We felt so when we came out of the front door of the independent palace that there was a mass movement gathered there and the mass movement deliberately surrounded our car, and therefore, Pak SBY felt that there was unfair treatment, shouting yells tend to be provocative towards our supporters, “said Eddy Soeparno at Smescp, South Jakarta, Sunday (9/23).
Even so, Zulkifli Hasan still returned to the declaration event, while SBY and his entourage left the event to declare a peaceful campaign. The Democrats protested to the KPU regarding the incident at the National Monument.
The KPU clarified the protest of the Democrat about the attributes and yells carried out by the Projo masses, according to the KPU chairman, Arief Budiman, the crowdedness of these attributes outside the route determined by the KPU. “So this is what we have arranged for all delegations in the carnival track. Indeed, if we are outside of this, we cannot regulate,” said KPU Chairperson Arief Budiman at the Central Jakarta Monas Sunday (9/23)
The KPU cannot ban the mass of supporters, especially those outside the path determined by the KPU, and he said that his party could not also force to remove the party’s attributes because it coincided with the day of peaceful declaration, was the first day allowed to campaign.
By: Rikky, S *)
