Author: Rizal Arifin *)
Approaching the Second Debate of the 2019 Presidential Election was beaten, stretching each candidate increasingly heated up, especially from the opposition. Incumbents may not be so overwhelmed because the public can directly assess their achievements and performance. As with opposition, if nothing new is offered, it means throwing away resources for free. And this is well realized by the Prabowo-Sandi couple. Whatever the way it is done is to make the public impressed, which is expected to be sympathetic but only limited to sensations.
Like teenagers who are puberty, Prabowo-Sandai always wants to be a byword of society. When you have run out of common sense, various ways are still done to get attention. Not infrequently, but in fact most spread lies, hatred, slander, and fear. It is not excessive if it is appropriate for Prabowo’s and Sandi’s utterances in the media to be accompanied by the label “dangerous scenes, not to be imitated”.
Prabowo’s various statements cannot be separated from those mentioned above. Talking about bubbling up as if he was disappointed with what was said. But in fact every time it’s confirmed, always dodge and take refuge in “I hear”. Obviously this is a loser’s attitude, not the Asian Tigers as he claims.
It was still warmly remembered, how Prabowo was vehemently conveying the country’s debt in an emergency and the state budget leaked. Prabowo considers the government unable to manage state finances and every project is maligned with mark ups. Even with the cruelty of the Minister of Finance called the debt printing minister. Even though the esteemed institution was led by a world-class economist, Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
Not much different from his deputy, Sandiaga Uno also often plays in the hot area. Not a bit of negative criticism without the evidence presented. On sensitive themes that touch people such as the economy, food security, and social welfare. The public already knows the various lies conveyed by Password. But the difference between Sandi, he is very double-faced, is that farmers and fishermen are promised high prices, while the mother and father are cheap and affordable, he said.
Right what the saying goes, “Ants across the ocean appear, elephants in eyelids do not appear”. Very suitable to be pinned to Prabowo-Sandi. Prabowo, who is very keen to criticize debt, turns out to be in debt. Trillions of debt of PT. Prabowo’s paper Nusantara will only be completed in 2031, assuming the current debt is paid. But the fact is that many times the employees of the company held demonstrations because of rights not paid by the company. In the middle of last year, around 1,500 employees of PT. Kertas Nusantara demands that the salary and THR not be paid for 4 years. It’s not fantastic, Prabowo? Tens of thousands of wives and children of employees are molested, maybe not a few have to scavenge for survival, drop out of school, or even starve to death. Millions of questions covered “why didn’t they resign? Sir, you know Prabowo is good at talking about it. “
Sandiaga Uno is not as clean as his words. Global corruption scandal Panama Paper also dragged its name. Establishing a shell company in a tax haven is a 20th century global financial crime. At least there are two main motives, namely avoiding taxes and money laundering. Suddenly the world was very critical of this, disrupting the international economic and monetary system. Sandiaga confirmed that the name of the company mentioned in the Panama Paper was his. The motive has not been released to the public, whether avoiding taxes or money laundering is fraud that can be criminalized.
Is this playing the umpteenth edition of Prabowo-Sandiaga? Accusing his political opponents of covering up the fraud they actually did. Everyone knows the answer. Anyone will not be willing to give the motherland to the hands of the loser hypocrites.
*) The author is an observer of social political issues
