Journalism was obstructed when they were taking photos of Jokowi at the NasDem Congress

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The media team faces restrictions when they want to take pictures of the President Jokowi at the Third Congress of the NasDem Party, Sunday afternoon, 25 August 2024. This moment happened when Jokowi was about to leave the plenary hall of the Jakarta Convention Center.

Journalists who prepared about 30 minutes before Jokowi left, were not given a place to take raw photos with the reporting equipment that was already there. The media team managed to get a little space, about 10 meters from one of the doors of the Full Hall.

However, one of the Palace Protocol staff and the Media Press Bureau warned journalists that there would be no interception or door sessions. Then the Nasdem Youth Guard immediately covered the media who had run over while they were kneeling.

The Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Third Congress of the NasDem Party, Willy Aditya, ordered the NasDem Youth Guard to open an area for the media. He said this after receiving a complaint from a Metro TV journalist. But the defense forces just remained silent.

“If it wasn’t for them (the media), this wouldn’t be big. Thank you for the door, Bang Surya and the President,” Willy said at the venue on Sunday at the JCC.

The Deputy Head for Protocol and Media at the Presidential Secretariat, Yusuf Permana, said he would investigate this restriction. Yusuf said that nothing should limit the work of the media. “There should be no (restrictions), I will check with the committee,” he said when contacted Tempo on Sunday, August 22, 2024.

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When you get out of the car NasdemPresident Jokowi did not say a word. Coming out with Surya Paloh, Jokowi only smiled when he was called by the media.

Other sources such as the former Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan were willing to give interview sessions to the media team covering the Third Nasdem Party Congress. Meanwhile, Surya Paloh did not want to give information, even though he had returned to the Full Hall after taking Jokowi to one of the doors of the JCC to go home.

Before that, it was reported that journalists were trapped in the canteen when they wanted to cover Jokowi at the Golkar Party National Conference on Wednesday 21 August 2024. However, at that time Jokowi still gave an opportunity to -a statement from the Presidential Palace requesting two statements. about his presence at the banyan tree party event.

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