Suara.com – The Golkar Party is said to have received electoral blessings from the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair Prabowo-Gibran in the 2024 elections which will continue the policies of the Joko Widodo or Jokowi government.
This statement was made by the Populi Center Policy Manager and Researcher, Dimas Ramadhan. He believes that Golkar received electoral blessings because of the party's hard work.
“Jokowi wants the change agenda to continue, and then Golkar goes all out to support it. Then he gets electoral blessings from the results of hard work, so it's no surprise that the Golkar Party's vote is bigger than Prabowo's Gerindra,” said Dimas, when confirmed, Wednesday (20 /2/2024).
“Even though the Golkar cadres are not running for president, they are all out supporting Prabowo-Gibran, in a big way supporting Jokowi's agenda,” he added.
Dimas also said that Golkar has consistently supported the Jokowi government from 2014 to 2024.
Moreover, during the 2019 elections, Golkar and PDI Perjuangan went all out to win Jokowi for the second term.
“Golkar has been going all out since 2014, since joining Jokowi's cabinet, it has proven to be all out, supporting Jokowi's agenda in the cabinet, parliament and elections. In the 2019 election, Golkar was almost as all out as PDIP to win Jokowi a second term,” he said.
In fact, when Jokowi broke up with PDI Perjuangan, Dimas said that Golkar then became the foundation as a party that had strong infrastructure.
“In terms of party infrastructure, the only one who can compete with Golkar is PDIP. When PDIP separates from Jokowi, what Jokowi can hope for is of course Golkar. That's why there is a need, there is reciprocity, there is profitable cooperation,” he explained.
According to him, Golkar is the party that has the best infrastructure in the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM).
So far, continued Dimas, Golkar is the party that has the best infrastructure within the party in the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM).
“The Golkar Party has a lot of experience, strong infrastructure, strong regional networks, experience in bureaucracy. That is Jokowi's strategy, apart from relying on Gerindra, which we know, the people are quite good, but the HR experience of the party's infrastructure is more complete than the Golkar Party,” he said.