Suara.com – Academic and political observer, Rocky Gerung, highlighted the simultaneous action of thousands of students from 899 campuses who distributed leaflets rejecting dynastic politics last Thursday (11/1/2024).
In his YouTube account, Rocky Gerung assessed that this action confirmed that the students were dissatisfied with the situation and felt that the choices available were actually engineered by the current regime.
“So it seems that the campus, with its common sense, wants to show that we are not silent, we are actually fed up. We know what President Jokowi is doing. “This is actually energy to strengthen opposition positions,” said Rocky, on his YouTube account, Rocky Gerung Official, quoted Friday (12/1/2024).
Current students, said Rocky, are already in agreement that dynastic politics is Jokowi’s attempt to prevent a healthy democratic process from taking place in Indonesia.
“So it seems that the campus community has really come to some kind of agreement that this dynastic politics is Jokowi’s attempt to privilege someone who is his son,” said Rocky.
“That’s the bad thing, at the end of Pak Jokowi’s leadership, democracy is deteriorating,” he continued.
He sees students’ anxiety because currently Jokowi is clearly and consciously using himself as president to control political land for his own harvest.
“What is planted is not the interests of the people, but the family. So the point is to remove the Jokowi factor from the process leading to the 2024 elections. So that will allow everyone to feel relieved. “That relief will bring back Indonesia’s enthusiasm for entering the political and election year,” he explained.
Currently, according to Rocky, what students are doing is a moral encouragement so that dynastic politics in Indonesia does not happen.
Rocky assessed that in the future this movement will not only be carried out by students but will also spread to the wider community.
“This will be the biggest movement in the post-reform era,” he said.
Previously, a number of students from various campuses in Indonesia distributed leaflets and Actung newspapers containing rejection of dynastic politics and demanding the arrest of suspected human rights violators.
In Newsdelivers.com, students who took part in distributing leaflets included Prof Dr Moestopo Beragama University and UIN Newsdelivers.com. They distributed pamphlets in front of their respective campuses.
TKN response
The Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team (TKN) reported on the appearance of the illegal newspaper Achtung which reported on presidential candidate number 2 Prabowo Subianto.
TKN Prabowo-Gibran highlighted the news narrative published by the Achtung newspaper.
Deputy Chairman of the Prabowo-Gibran TKN, Habiburokhman, said the newspaper’s report contained slander against Prabowo.
He said that the illegal newspaper had circulated in Newsdelivers.com, West Java, Lampung, Riau, Pekanbaru, Aceh and North Sumatra.
“First, the massive distribution of the Achtung newspaper in various big cities, the contents of which are slanderous. For two days and three days the kidnapping of 98 activists has been circulating. This is a picture of Pak Prabowo, Pak Prabowo being slandered as a kidnapper,” said Habiburokhman at the TKN Media Center, Newsdelivers.com, Friday ( 12/1/2024).
Habiburokhman then responded to the slander in the Achtung newspaper’s report regarding Prabowo being involved in the kidnapping of 98. Habiburokhman emphasized that there were four legal facts that proved Prabowo was not involved in the disappearance of the 98 activists.
The first fact is that there was no testimony from witnesses in the Team Mawar trial that mentioned Prabowo’s order to kidnap 98 activists.
Second, the decision of the Officer Honorary Council no. KEP/03/VIII71998/DKP, examined by Lt. Gen. Prabowo Subianto, is not a judicial decision and not a decision of a semi-judicial institution.
“That is the nature of the decision and it is only a recommendation and this can be seen at the end of the decision,” said Habiburokhman.
Third, the decision from the 3rd President of the Republic of Indonesia, BJ Habibie, who honorably dismissed Prabowo as Danjen Kopassus.
Meanwhile, the fourth fact is that Komnas HAM has not been able to complete the results of the investigation into the gross human rights violations accused of Prabowo to the Attorney General’s Office since 2006.
“In fact, according to the provisions of Article 20 of Law Number 26 of 2000, the time for Komnas HAM to complete the results of the investigation is only 30 days,” he said.
Intention to Report to the Police
TKN Prabowo-Gibran also plans to report the Achtung Newspaper to the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit.
“We monitored first after 2-3 days of compiling and collecting all the evidence, then we officially reported it to Bareskrim because this is purely criminal because it has nothing to do with elections in the context of law enforcement,” said Habiburokhman.
Habiburokhman also revealed that there were attempts to incite students to hold demonstrations by building a narrative of dynastic politics and demanding the arrest of suspected human rights violators.
Even though he thinks Prabowo has not violated human rights, he is worried that the call will be distorted to slander parties contesting in the 2024 elections.
“We know that in this election era it is very sensitive when there are demonstrations, of course they provoke reactions from other parties,” he said.