To be (Candidate) President of Indonesia, You Must Rich, Not Enough Javanese, Male, Muslim, UGM, and Chief of Political Party
To be (Candidate) President of Indonesia, You Must Rich, Not Enough Javanese, Male, Muslim, UGM, and Chief of Political Party
Imagine/assume I lost a bag of clothes for Itikaf (NYT define: "BARRICADE THEMSELVES in Masjid”), then, a couple, a UGM (wife)-ITB (husband) couple helping me with no blink eye, immediately (even amid flu, “meriang”). No hesitation to help others. Maybe only for this couple (or at least my friend named Maysa) I can visit the “lavish-too big-private sector” area named BSD. This couple is just 3-4 km from ([pure]javanese-IR UGM) “CRESCENT”.
I just visiting the “UGM-ITB” couple to Lebaranan (celebrating Ied/Eid), make sure I’m not owe, and make sure “unggah-ungguh Java style” (implicit rule - Java style) “if you get help from other, you make sure replies properly.” Around 2 hours before I visited this BSD-couple UGM-ITB, I saw the meme, joke about flip flops in relation between UGM-ITB.
But, please. We must read our (Indonesia) history very carefully. Soekarno is ITB. Soeharto is some Junior High School (SMP) 1 Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (me: SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Yogya), Soeharto can't afford tuition fee for high school. Habibie is ITB (again, see—ITB get 2). Abdurrahman Wahid is Islamic School-Madrasa Tambaksari Jombang (then Al Azhar Cairo). Megawati is Padjajaran (although drop out). SBY (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) is Military Academy Magelang. UGM waited 69 (SIXTY NINE) YEARS to write the history of UGM alumnus to be President (Jokowi). According to the latest global rating, UGM is the best in Indonesia, no. 214 (although just no.9 in ASEAN). In comparison, my brother 's campus is the 2nd best in Asia (of course automatically 2nd best in ASEAN too) and 12th in the world.
Damn, even my lecture, literally IR (international relation) UGM nearly to be President (Amien Rais). But sadly, Amien Rais never got a better chance to be Indonesia President. “If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from it you cannot flee.”
OK. Let all candidates for 2024 or even 2029, 2034, 2039. UGM set 4 (FOUR) horses: Airlangga (Engineering faculty, UGM), Ganjar (Law, UGM), Muhaimin (Social Science Faculty but Communication, not IR), and Anies (Economic/Economic and Business, UGM). Prabowo Subianto is Military Academy Magelang. Ridwan Kamil is ITB. Sandiaga is Wichita State University. Erick Thohir is California State University. Gibran Rakabuming is Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), Kaesang is Singapore University of Social Sciences.
No, the absolute ticket for the Presidency aren’t Javanese or UGM. But…. rich.
Jokowi (IN YEARS) is facing “libel”, “insult”, “harassment”, “defamation”, just because he’s dont have “beautiful picture” studio-style for his graduation (Forestry UGM). Not like Anies (economy UGM-arab/yemeni).
So, the best chance to be President aren’t (enough) if Javanese, Muslim. You must be rich and have a beautiful-proper picture/studio style when you graduate. The style is just affordable if your parents earned around IDR 300k/month in the 1980s, or IDR 110 million / month today.
The chance, better chance actually goes to Unpad / Padjajaran or UPH (Pelita Harapan Univ), with lavish-european classic style for graduation. Damn, but Febe is Christ. So, it is very difficult to be President.
Even, I’m not a pure Javanese. I’m (half of) Minang, a tribe who are “very loud, grumpy, — maybe spiteful, grinning to (awkwardly) Javanese. I’m exactly 100% similar with Megawati (Dad Javanese, Mom Minang).
Let's say I have a chance because not only (half) Javanese and UGM, but also Male, although I don't have “beautiful photographs when I graduate.” I just Muhammadiyah, not NU. I was, with 200+ pages of thesis, The Thickest Thesis in IR UGM History (with a lot footage document in Arab also Hebrew), Thesis with “full throttle”, The most sadistic thesis in IR UGM, to “BURNING”, COOKING, highlights Israeli Jewish atrocities to Palestine. And I still try to believe that Mrs Prada is Jewish.
If she meant to be or not, I’m not worried anymore. If Allah SWT (God) love with fate that Indonesia First Lady is Jewish, not Javanese BSD, Allah SWT (God) just said “Be, and it’s” (kun fayakuun / Innama amruhu idza arraa dasai’y aan. ayya ku lallahu kun fayakuun)
All it takes, when He wills something “to be”, is simply to say to it: “Be! And it is!”
“If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from it you cannot flee.”