Author: Ani Susanti *
The Inodnesia democracy party is not over, various strategies and the mainstays of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates are contested to the public. Speaking about the Presidential and Vice Presidential Debate event, this was one of the events to show off the vision and mission of the candidate pair which had just been held on January 17, 2019. After the first debate was over, various media reported input and criticism of the debate on the theme of law, eradicating corruption, human rights and terrorism. One of the most questioned questions is giving debating grids to candidate pairs. Therefore, the General Election Commission immediately evaluates the course of the debate as a fixed procedure that is always carried out by KPU after the event takes place. Through this evaluation, the KPU decided to change the format and mechanism of the candidate pair debate for the second stage. so that the next debate will be carried out different rules and formats as said by KPU Commissioner Wahyu Setiawan. There is no grid anymore and there is no notification of the question abstraction made by the panelist, so that each candidate must be ready to submit answers in a real and real way.
The KPU’s decision received a positive response from candidate pair number 1, Jokowi-Amin, who stated that there was no problem if the General Election Commission (KPU) did not give a lattice at the second debate of the 2019 Presidential Election because of the fact that it was not number 1 candidate requested a debate grid at the first debate yesterday. The decision to give a grid to each candidate pair is agreed because we must respect every decision made by the KPU and do not intervene. Although currently Jokowi still holds the position of President of Indonesia, Jokowi still follows the rules made by the KPU.
In addition, all people can see in the first debate yesterday, precisely Paslon 01 is the most original, most prepared, and most concrete in the debate over the first debate. Moreover, the candidate pair 01 will always explore further about the depth of the mission vision and the programs that will be offered in the next five years. Considering the theme of the debate to be raised later in relation to energy, food, infrastructure, natural resources, the environment, this is an opportunity for Jokowi to win the debate by seeing the results of real work for 4 years of governance in advancing energy and infrastructure. One of the advantages of the Jokowi-Amin pair is that they are able to answer debate questions in accordance with the reality in the field because of the results of experience in leading the community so far, starting from the mayor, governor, to the current president of the Republic, so that there can be no doubt answers to be delivered.
With the problems of society in today’s digital democracy era, Indonesia needs a leader who has fresh ideas to solve community problems. In the first debate yesterday, the Jokowi-Amin pair received many good judgments and were considered winners compared to the Prabowo-Sandi pair because they were considered to appear more concrete, calm and not abstract in implementing the vision and mission that they wanted to aim for Indonesia. Hopefully in the next debate, Jokowi-Amin is ready to show his best quality and be able to prove the real visions to the people, especially the subsequent debates in different formats. Indonesia must be sure of experienced leaders not leaders who have past burdens.
) * Hasanuddin University FISIP students
