Jakarta –
PDIP politician Deddy Sitorus said he would not forget what he had done Anies Baswedan in the 2017 DKI Jakarta Pilkada. Because, he said, Anies did not discuss the issue of identity politics that occurred in 2017.
“There is one sin which has never been forgivenlaundry by Anies. It has to do with that, with minority groups. We know that what happened in the 2017 election was during the Pilgub,” said Deddy in the Adu Perspective collaboration event. detikcom with Total Politics themed ‘Party Coalition: Tighter or Disband’, Monday (16/1/2023).
“There is a name forgive but not forget loh. We forgive but we not forget, why? Because he (Anies) has never stated personally that what happened was wrong and I regret it, and I promise it will not be repeated,” he added.
NasDem Deputy Secretary General Hermawi Taslim who took part in the discussion responded to Deddy. He said Anies could not choose who would support him.
“So you see, when you become someone, you can’t choose who your supporters are. Our perspective on Anies is that in this plural republic you cannot manage this country alone, all the nation’s children must be invited. So when there was a question whether NasDem supported Anies’ move to meet with various groups, I said we support it, why? We have to reconcile, we have to continue to build togetherness,” said Taslim.
Taslim thinks that one party should not claim that they are the most nationalist, thus accusing others of being desert lizards or kadrun.
“There is no one who claims to be the most nationalist and then easily accuses kadrun people of all kinds. We all need a role,” he explained.
Deddy then responded to Taslim’s statement. He called the identity politics that occurred in 2017 a legacy that was left behind Anies in the context of pluralism.
“Earlier I talked about the figure of Anies. But this is what later became legacy Anies in the context of pluralism, because he ignores it,” said Deddy.
“I already bar, okay we forgive him, but we’ll not forget. Because he never talked about it at all, even though it was the moment where the most painful thing in our pluralism happened,” he added.
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