Suara.com – Marcus Mietzner, Australia National University Associate Professor who is also an Indonesianist, highlighted the position of the President Jokowi related to the chaos of the Democratic Party.
In an online discussion, Friday (12/3/2021), Marcus assessed that Jokowi’s attitude could be categorized as bad if he did not know the movements of the President’s Chief of Staff. Moeldoko who was asked to become Chairman of the Democratic Party of the KLB Deli Serdang version.
“We in Australia know that Moeldoko will become chairman of the Democrats. As soon as the chairman, the president and the spokesman said the palace was shocked, how come Moeldoko suddenly became chairman of the Democrats,” said Marcus Mietzner.
According to him, even if Jokowi does not know the political activities of his chief of staff, then it is very bad.
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Moreover, before the Extraordinary Democrat Party Congress was held in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, Friday (5/3), there had been widespread media reports about Moeldoko being the Chief Executive of PD through this mechanism.
“It’s been a month before the outbreak, there has been a lot of news about Moeldoko being the chairman of the Democrats,” he said.
According to Marcus, whether he knew it or not, Jokowi was still judged badly.
In fact, he said, Jokowi remains bad at politics even though he does not know Moeldoko’s intentions, does not support him, or is completely unaware of the Democrat Party’s KLB plan.
“We have to ask why the president doesn’t want to know, doesn’t ask or if he has been told, why not take steps such as dismissal,” he said.
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Marcus admits that during his time as a political researcher, this is the first time that the president does not know the actions of his subordinates.
“I have not found examples like this anywhere before. So actually we have to question, what does Jokowi know? Is he really involved? He has motivated Moeldoko to take steps like this?” he said.
“Or if you don’t know, why doesn’t he know? Once you’ve read, seen on TV, why doesn’t he take a step?”
Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD ensured that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was calm and relaxed amid the chaos of the Democratic Party.
For information, Jokowi was asked by a number of parties, especially party cadres who are still loyal to support Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) as general chairman, to immediately take a stand.
“He (President Jokowi) happy-happy only huh. This means that he was shocked when he found out that Mr. Moeldoko (was involved in the coup), but he did not feel that this was damaging, he was silent, “Mahfud was quoted as saying from Najwa Shibab’s YouTube show.
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