By: Zainuddin) *
Lately after a meeting of Prabowo’s political rivals with Jokowi and Megawati, the public got an interesting spectacle, ranging from meeting Prabowo and Jokowi on the MRT. Up to the diplomacy of Fried Rice in the style of PDI-P General Chairperson Megawati Soekarno Putri.
The scene seemed to show that the opponent had become friends, until finally the community speculated and asked – asking, where were the coalition and opposition in the Jokowi government for the next 5 years.
This shows that the political upheaval that had started and then warmed up again, after the KPU and the Constitutional Court decided to reject all BPN claims Prabowo – Sandiaga, party elites seemed to be showing increasingly political acrobatics ahead of determining the composition of the Cabinet by President Jokowi.
This political acrobat seems to indicate that some politicians “expect” ministerial seats to be allocated because the political parties have supported his lord, but once again of course it is impolite to support potential leaders to be able to get ministerial rations, this is of course questionable sincerity in providing support to the presidential candidate he supports .
The general secret in the realm of politics is ‘there are no true friends, there are no eternal opponents, there are common interests. Therefore, now people are guessing who their friends are, this is evident from the Gondangdia meeting, which is a number of 4 party leaders and elites supporting Jokowi (coalition camp) minus PDIP, which is followed by Gondangdia Volume 2 meeting between Surya Paloh and DKI Governor Jakarta Anies Baswedan, where at the same time on Jalan Tengku Umar and also a meeting between Megawati and Prabowo, two meetings at the same time can be said to be special, because they were carried out by opposing parties when the Jakarta Pilgub event and during the last election.
In the political map there is no coincidence or accidental, as the political elite answered when answering the question of the media crew, the gondangdia meeting Volume 1, said to celebrate the birthday of Nasdem party leader Surya Paloh, then the second volume, said because Anies Baswedan had long wanted to meet, but only had time at that time.
Of course, simultaneously with the meeting at Teuku Umar, therefore the community assumed, if in the past there were 2 camps now being added to become the gondangdia stronghold and the tengku umar camp.
The emergence of the new camp was strengthened by the statements of the leaders of each camp, Megawati said that in the Presidential cabinet there was no coalition or opposition, while the gondangdia camp stated that the addition of coalition participants would reduce the solidity of the coalition supporting the election, from the statements of the political party elites, it became clearer there will be changes to the coalition and opposition maps.
So that the opposition might expect to be in power, while the coalition camp is worried about losing the seat allocation in the cabinet, as long as all for the benefit of the nation and state, we just leave it to President-elect Joko Widodo to determine which ministers will be given a cabinet in his cabinet.
On a different occasion, Jokowi also mentioned the criteria for the desired ministerial candidate, among others, to have a leadership spirit, hard worker, have the capacity to run a government program and have integrity.
It was also known that the PPP had not yet proposed the names of candidates for ministers, PPP Secretary General Asrul Sani stated that he would propose names of candidates for ministers after being asked by President Joko Widodo.
If we do not get a seat, of course we cannot blame Jokowi alone, because the Minister is the authority of the president who chose and removed him from his position. If you don’t get a seat, of course there are still many furniture stores that sell a variety of nice chairs.
Of course it will be something beautiful if the political parties will fight over the seats. President Jokowi on the occasion of the dissolution of TKN has also appealed to his supporters to remain compact.
So that there is no need for jealousy in the cabinet later
the division of seats is not in line with the expectations of the political party elites.
But that does not mean that Jokowi does not accept proposals for candidates for ministers from his coalition party, so if later Jokowi asks for the proposal of a minister’s name, please just submit as long as it remains legowo, for example, not elected to a position in the ministry.
) * The author is a sociopolitical observer
