Suara.com – Cakra Satya 08 (CS 08) volunteers declared their support for presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate number 02 Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the 2024 presidential election. The declaration event was also enlivened by a poetry reading competition with the Prabowo-Gibran theme.
General Chair of CS 08 Volunteers, Joe Marbun, said that the poetry competition event, which was attended by 30 participants from millennials and Gen Z, was a form of support from the volunteers for Prabowo-Gibran's vision and mission and work program, one of which was preserving arts and culture.
“And our focus as volunteers is how to embody the main ideas of Pak Prabowo-Gibran's vision and mission. That is what is important and that this poetry is a form of embodiment of Pak Prabowo-Gibran,” said Joe at Rumah Kertanegara, Kebayoran Baru, Newsdelivers.com , Wednesday (7/2/2024).
Joe assessed that Prabowo-Gibran has a full commitment to the cultural sector. Prabowo demonstrated this by designing a strategic ministry that specifically looked after this field.
“Pak Prabowo-Gibran is fully committed to the field of culture. He thinks that this is necessary seriously, including thinking about one of the ministries, namely the Ministry of Culture. This was said by Pak Prabowo in the last debate,” said Joe.
In terms of preserving cultural heritage, continued Joe, Prabowo-Gibran places the government not only as a regulator and facilitator. But it can also intervene regarding the protection of past cultural heritage.
Meanwhile, Betawi cultural observer Harry De Fretes appreciated the poetry reading competition held by CS 08 Volunteers. He considered that the activities organized by the volunteers were clear proof that Prabowo-Gibran had special attention to art and culture.
“This is a real concern from candidate pair 02 Pak Prabowo-Gibran. And this is an opening for us and can make us more involved in the world of arts, so someone will pay attention, I'm just happy,” said Harry.
Harry also left a message to Prabowo-Gibran so that when they receive a mandate from the people to become president and vice president, the two of them can form a ministry-level institution that specifically deals with culture.
“I want to leave a message to revive the Ministry of Culture so that we, artists, will pay attention. Hopefully, if Pak Prabowo becomes president, he can pay attention to artists like us,” he said.