Suara.com – The Youth Coalition for Democracy and Climate Change criticized the reporting of Timses Ganjar-Mahfud, Aiman Witjaksono and human rights activist Rocky Gerung to the police.
General Chairperson of PP Sarekat Democrat Indonesia and representative of the Youth Coalition for Democracy and Climate Change, M. Andrean Saefudin, explained that the condition of democracy in Indonesia is not healthy.
“This is very unhealthy in our democracy. Recently, names have to be mentioned, for example what happened is Bang Rocky Gerung who was named a suspect today and also Bang Aiman Witjaksono who was reported to the Police Criminal Investigation Unit,” said Andrean in his statement, Saturday (18 /11/2023).
Apart from the criminalization case against Aiman and Rocky, the Youth Coalition also highlighted the lack of presidential and vice presidential candidate pairs who discussed the issues of climate change, democratic development and women’s representation.
“There is still minimal space given and effective empowerment by the presidential and vice presidential candidates,” explained Andrean.
Andrean explained that Indonesia was being hit by a decline in democracy.
He explained, based on research conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit or EIU, Indonesia’s democracy index will only reach a score of 6.71 in 2022.
“We young people are worried about these situations,” said Andrean.
In fact, Andrean views that the three issues highlighted by the Youth Coalition for Democracy and Climate Change are important issues that receive attention.
“The politics of ideas must be at the forefront of issues of climate change and women’s representation. Participation and contribution to the development of Indonesian democracy starts with awareness to provide supervision over its sustainability,” he said.
Aiman Policed
Previously, a group of people on behalf of the Election Guard Youth Front and the Alliance of Civil Society Elements for Democracy reported Aiman to Polda Metro Jaya. Aiman was reported on suspicion of spreading fake news or hoaxes and hate speech.
Spokesperson for the Alliance of Civil Society Elements for Democracy, Fikri, said that this report had been received and registered with Number: LP/B/6813/XI/2023/SPKT/POLDA METRO JAYA dated November 13 2023.
In Aiman’s report he was charged with Article 28 Paragraph 2 Juncto Article 45 A Paragraph 2 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions or ITE and/or Article 14 and/or Article 15 of Law Number 1 of 1946 concerning Criminal Law Regulations .
Fikri then explained that the material spreading hoaxes and hate speech that was reported was related to Aiman’s statement accusing members of the National Police who were ordered by their superiors to help win the pair Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
“We then considered that Aiman Witjaksono’s statement was not based on concrete and valid data. So we reported Aiman’s brother to the Regional Police because we thought that Aiman’s brother was spreading hatred and alleged hoaxes,” said Fikri at Polda Metro Jaya, Newsdelivers.com, Monday (13/11/ 2023).
According to Fikri, Aiman’s statement has harmed the police and the community. Apart from that, he considered that this could also cause commotion.
“So, in the future, our democracy will be flawed, and it will also be crippled when its travel events are always rumored to be filled with hoaxes and the spread of hatred,” he said.
To strengthen his report, Fikri claims to have included several pieces of evidence. One of them is a video containing Aiman’s statement regarding the material in question.