Suara.com – Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka filled the Indonesia Kaya Field area to the Simpang Lima square, Semarang City, while taking part in the national parade for candidate number 2, on Sunday 28 January 2024.
The masses of Prabowo-Gibran supporters came from various cities/districts in the Central Java Province. Supporters with the attributes of the party supporting Prabowo-Gibran were observed to have crowded the location of the national carnival since midday. The carnival event itself started in the afternoon, at around 16.30 WIB.
Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were paraded to the main stage in the Simpang Lima Semarang square using special floats, accompanied by a troupe of paskibra and marching bands, as well as a cultural parade troupe with unique and interesting costumes.
Prabowo, Gibran and wife Selvie Ananda were seen riding the float together. The carnival vehicle moved slowly, giving Prabowo-Gibran the opportunity to greet the public. The crowd, which had spilled out along the road, gave a warm welcome to candidate pair Gibran by waving their hands and cheering happily to welcome Prabowo-Gibran.
The National Carnival event was also attended directly by the General Chair of the Golkar Party Airlangga Hartarto, the Daily Chair of the Gerindra DPP Sufi Dasco Ahmad, the General Chair of the Democratic Party Agus Harimurti Yidhoyono, the General Chair of PAN Zukifli Hasan, the General Chair of the Garuda Party Ahmad Ridha Sabana, and the General Chair of PSI Kaesang Pangarep, to influencers such as Paula Verhouven and Baim Wong, Ria Ricis, to Tara Budiman.
Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, in his oration, asked the public to give Prabowo and Gibran the mandate to lead the Indonesian nation. Prabowo promised that in the remainder of his life he would like to see poverty disappear from Indonesia.
“Look at our coalition, see that almost all of our best sons and daughters are in our coalition. We want to do the best for the Indonesian people,” stressed Prabowo.
After that, Cawapres Gibran invited the people present to work together to guard the votes for candidate pair No. 2, during the election on February 14.
“In the next few weeks, many survey results will come out. If the survey results are bad, we have to work hard. If the survey results are good, we have to work even harder,” asked Gibran and was answered with applause from the audience.
Gibran also asked all his supporters not to pay attention to attacks and slander from anyone. “If there is an attack, there is no need to respond to slander. Don't respond to slander for slander,” said Gibran.