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Text your say: The Jokowi and Rhoma effects
Your comments on the analysis that the âJokowi effectâ had little impact on the recent legislative election, even less so than the âRhoma Irama effectâ:I think that the analysts are daydreamers
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strong>Your comments on the analysis that the 'Jokowi effect' had little impact on the recent legislative election, even less so than the 'Rhoma Irama effect':
I think that the analysts are daydreamers.
Taco de Vries
As for educated voters and professionals, Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo is no more than a failed governor who happens to have a nice personality. Even though politicians from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) nominated him for the presidential race, that doesn't make him an influential figure.
What a shame if one voted for PDI-P legislative candidates just because of Jokowi. After all, what exactly has he accomplished as Jakarta's leader? The charm of a person does not make him a good leader.
Jokowi's geniality is nothing more than just a usual greeting for Jakartans; his true leadership would mean more. For those of us who want to vote for him in the next presidential election, I'd urge you to elect a figure who can truly bring about better change for this country.
Megawati's nomination of Jokowi for president demonstrates that she doesn't recognize his failure.
John Bekhamans
Jokowi has always been in Indonesian people's hearts; however, it does not necessarily mean that our rational voters will in turn vote for the PDI-P.
I myself argue that, to some degree, Megawati's party seems to have taken advantage of Jokowi's growing popularity.
For example, a party slogan claiming, 'Vote for the PDI-P and Jokowi will be the next president' mushroomed in locations across the country and sounded fairly arrogant.
The fact that the PDI-P only secured around 19 percent of votes, well below its initial target of 27 percent, I think, indicates that our people won't be dictated by the party, and therefore their preferences were divided quite proportionally among the three largest parties aside from the PDI-P, namely the Golkar Party, Gerindra Party and the Democratic Party.
In short, I believe that 'Jokowi fever' is still spreading and is gripping the whole nation. Moreover, it is predicted to reach its peak on the presidential election day on July 9, when Jokowi will emerge as the president-elect. Unfortunately, however, it will have nothing to do with the party's achievement in endorsing him at the legislative
election previously.
Ronald
Jakarta
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