Suara.com – The Advisory Board of the Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team (TKN), General TNI (Purn) Agum Gumelar, revealed a change in Prabowo’s attitude for the better, as the General Chair of the Gerindra Party chose to join the Jokowi-Ma’ruf cabinet.
According to Agum, Prabowo’s entry into the cabinet as Minister of Defense (menhan) was the beginning of Prabowo’s attitude as it is today.
Initially, Agum talked about his communication with Prabowo after the 2019 presidential election.
Agum asked why Prabowo finally joined the cabinet and became President Jokowi’s minister.
Even though it is known, Prabowo and Jokowi were rivals in the presidential election contest at that time.
“Why do you want to join Pak Jokowi’s cabinet? Even though the president is your rival. Why do you want to join?” said Agum repeating the question to Prabowo at the Borobudur Hotel, Central Newsdelivers.com, Friday (1/11/2023).
Prabowo then gave an answer to Agum’s question.
“What’s the answer? The answer is, ‘Bro, I’m doing all this to maintain national unity and unity’,” said Agum, repeating Prabowo’s answer.
Agum was touched by Prabowo’s answer
Hearing Prabowo’s answer, Agum admitted that he was very touched. Even though he realized that it might be a normative answer, this answer touched Agum.
“And that started a change in Pak Prabowo’s attitude in the future,” said Agum.
Agum is known to have attended the Prabowo-Gibran TKN National Coordination Meeting (Rakornas). After attending the National Coordination Meeting, Agum advised that unity and unity are things that need to be maintained, whoever wins the 2024 presidential election.
“So you have created a cool, shady atmosphere. Competing yes in the context of democratic competition, but not in a way that legalizes all means,” he said.