When Jokowi Very Happy with Xi Jinping, Anti-China Contender Emerge for Indonesia Election 2024, the 3rd Biggest Election on Earth
Author was once hit with a sword and hammerhead, almost died while defending minorities, amid the heat of the 2017 Jakarta Election
5.55pm Jakarta / 6.55am DC
(Photo: Jokowi with Muhaimin Iskandar)
According to KOMPAS (2nd biggest media in Southeast Asia / SEA), in Surabaya, the 7th most populous cities in Southeast Asia / SEA, PKB (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa - The National Awakening Party, 5th biggest party in Indonesia based on Election 2019), around 5.43pm local time, agree to pairing Chief of PKB Muhaimin Iskandar with Anies Rasyid Baswedan.
When Jokowi (current President of Indonesia) very happy and has a very warm relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping (although not yet join BRICS — but will be trying / testing High Speed Train /HST on September 8th, 1st ever HST in Southeast Asia), frontrunner Baswedan (Anti Chinese Overseas, some people also suggested he’s also anti Beijing) - Muhaimin likely awkward. Xi Jinping reportedly refused to attend the G20 Summit in India, but some cable diplomatic I heard say Xi Jinping will attend in Jakarta for the HST / High Speed Train trial alongside Jokowi, and also groundbreaking new building of Chinese Embassy in IKN NUSANTARA - New Capital City of Indonesia. Current Chinese Embassy in Jakarta is, to be honest, very old, too small.
Anti-China Overseas (Baswedan) will pair with (candidate) VP Muhaimin in Indonesia Election 2024. Just 2 hours before, around 4pm local time, former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004 - 2014) broke the news, saying Baswedan betrayed him and the entire (Indonesia) Democrat Party.
(angry statement, by Indonesia’s Democrat Party, just circulated around 9.32pm Jakarta / 10.32am DC)
In Lembang District, Central Jakarta, just around 400 meters from residence home for Governor of Jakarta (*Anies was living in this residence home, 2017-2022), August 25th, 2023, or just 1 week ago, Anies privately asked AHY, eldest son of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to be VP candidate for Indonesia Election 2024, with eyewitnesses at least 2 high-ranking politicians.
PKB since 1999 clearly well-known very pluralist political party. PKB is directly part of Nadhaltul Ulama (NU), the biggest moslem organization on earth. One of the NU members or cadre, the late Riyanto, was one of four members of Banser who volunteered to safeguard Eben Haezer that scary night — multiple bombing in Indonesia, December 24th, 2000. He had turned 25 years old about a month before. METRO TV, owned by Surya Paloh, the conglomerate who funded Anies Rasyid Baswedan, started to be popular because of the Christmas 2000 Bombing because of very complete coverage by METRO TV — now 7th biggest media in SEA.
Although Baswedan accused anti China-Overseas and even anti China / Beijing (anti Xi Jinping), Surya Paloh’s wife is Chinese Overseas, and even, was working together with Chinese company SONANGOL to build “INDONESIA - 1 TOWER (not yet finished). INDONESIA - 1 TOWER located in the former Soviet / Russia Embassy in Indonesia. After the Soviet Government changed the location of the Embassy (1st change: now KPU/Indonesia’s Election Board, around 1984-1994; 2nd and still build since 1995: in Rasuna South Jakarta, alongside Indonesia’s Ministry of Law and Human Rights), this location was bought by some conglomerate to build “EX-PLAZA, but years ago this location was bought by Surya Paloh.
Entire Surya Paloh’s staff (METRO TV staff) under intimidation during (reporting, coverage) Jakarta Election 2017.
Hundreds of people attended Christmas Eve services at the church that night. At about 8:30pm, a parishioner noticed that a suspicious black package had been placed near the front of the church.
Riyanto went to check out the package and opened it up to find a sparking box covered in cables and wire.
At that moment, he must have realized it was a bomb. He could have dropped it and run, trying to save himself. He could have become paralyzed with fear.
Instead, he yelled for everybody else to get down and ran as fast as he could away from the crowded church, looking for a drainage ditch to throw the bomb into.
But before he could dispose of it, the bomb exploded in Riyanto’s hands. The power of the explosion sent his body flying over 100 meters and killed him instantly.
Bombs exploded in churches in nine Indonesian cities that night, killing 18 people. That number might have been much higher had it not been for Riyanto’s selfless actions.
For his sacrifice, Riyanto was hailed as a hero in headlines across Indonesia. A street was named after him in Mojokerto and a shrine to his memory, including his picture and the tattered remains of the shirt he wore that night, can be found at the NU museum in Surabaya.
The late President Gus Dur or Abdurrahman Wahid, a leader in NU and one of Indonesia’s strongest defenders of diversity, praised the hero of Mojokerto as a shining example of what Islamic values are truly about, saying “Riyanto has proven himself to be a religious man who was rich in humanity. I hope he earns the benefits of his sacrifice [in the afterlife.” The Wahid Institute, a foundation established by Gus Dur to promote tolerance, started a scholarship for underprivileged students in Riyanto’s name in 2008.
(Muhaimin just admit he agree to run as VP candidate alongside Anies, in his social media, on Saturday around 3-4am local time / 4-5pm DC, September 2nd. Rumour about him [to be VP for Anies] circulated since Thursday)
Although Imim (Muhaimin Iskandar) had a 2 decades rift with Wahid family, Imin is very well known as very pluralist, a proof of estafet legacy in NU.
Cek DPT Online - Komisi Pemilihan Umum (kpu.go.id)
Contrary to Baswedan.
In heated competition of Jakarta mayoral election 2017, Baswedan share a bigotry campaign to attack another candidate, (existing) Governor Ahok (Basuki Tjahaja Purnama), now Ahok is commissioner of Pertamina, Indonesia oil company, the 14th biggest company in SEA / Southeast Asia. Ahok is Chinese Overseas
Ahok was jailed for 1.5 years because of a bigot / blasphemy case. PKB and personally Muhaimin Iskandar was supporting Ahok on Jakarta Election 2017.
But Imin also not perfect. He was accused of corruption in Indonesia’s Manpower Ministry (around 100 billion rupiah / around US$6.6 million), but every stakeholder can't prove it - yet.
Sandiaga Uno is a trillionaire, now Tourism Minister.
Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo is also a trillionaire, now Defense Minister.
Airlangga is a billionaire, now Coordinator Minister of Economy.
Muhaimin, again, is part of NU (Nahdlatul Ulama)-based political party, PKB.
Ganjar Pranowo is the current Governor of Central Java.
Gibran Rakabuming is the eldest son of President Joko Widodo.
Erick Thohir is trillionaire, now SOE/Sovereign Owned Enterprise Minister.
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