Suara.com – The Indonesian Minister of Defense (Menhan) and General Chairperson (Ketum) of Gerindra, Prabowo Subianto, is currently being embroiled in unpleasant issues.
Now accusations are circulating that Prabowo once choked and slapped the Deputy Minister of Agriculture or Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Harvick Hasnul Qolbi, during a limited meeting at the Presidential Palace, Newsdelivers.com.
Ironically, Prabowo has never met Harvick throughout his career as minister.
“I haven’t met the Deputy Minister yet,” said Prabowo while accompanying President Jokowi at PT Pindad, Bandung, on Tuesday (19/9/2023).
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So, who is reckless enough to accuse Prabowo of mistreating fellow Jokowi officials without concrete evidence?
The origin of the issue of Prabowo strangling the Deputy Minister: from this content creator figure
This issue started with a narrative uploaded via the Seword TV YouTube channel.
The account uploaded a video entitled “Alifurrahman: IS THERE A PRESIDENTIAL CAPTAIN SAMPLING A WAMEN IN THE MEETING ROOM?”.
Meanwhile, Alifurrahman is none other than a content creator who also shared this issue through Seword TV uploads.
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Alifurrahman claimed that there was a heated incident at a limited meeting with President Jokowi some time ago. At that time, he claimed that a minister was angry because his fellow ministers were working incompetently.
The minister was assigned across ministries to hold a joint program. However, because he was dissatisfied with his colleague’s performance, the minister became furious.
The minister finally wanted to vent his anger at his colleague, but the person present at the meeting was the deputy minister.
Alifurrahman revealed that the minister is now running as one of the presidential candidates, aka presidential candidate. Of the three presidential candidates, only Prabowo holds a ministerial seat, namely as Minister of Defense.
“From me, the presidential candidate slapped the deputy minister,” said Alifurrahman, quoted from a video on the Seword TV YouTube account on Tuesday (19/9/2023).
Meanwhile, the other two presidential candidates are former governors. They are former Governor of DKI Newsdelivers.com Anies Baswedan and former Governor of Central Java Ganjar Pranowo.
Jokowi defends, will Prabowo report?
President Jokowi is now also defending the Minister of Defense from being exposed to this oblique issue. Jokowi was surprised why the figure who gave rise to this issue could accuse Prabowo of strangling his own colleague.
“Are you suffocating?” said Jokowi after inspecting the Bali Mester Jatinegara Market, Newsdelivers.com, Tuesday (19/9/2023).
To Jokowi’s knowledge, there has never been an incident like that alleged against Prabowo.
“As far as I know, there have been no incidents (choking and slapping) like that,” said Jokowi.
The president further asked the public to be alert to issues circulating in the middle of the political year.
“Indeed, this political year has had a lot of news (hoaxes) like that. Please cross-check, cross-check the truth, don’t accept it at face value every time there is news,” continued Jokowi.
As for reporting, Prabowo did not rule out the possibility of bringing this issue to court.
“But (reports about hoaxes) will be processed and studied,” explained the Minister of Defense.
Contributor: Armand Ilham
