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East Jakarta residents hope to meet Ahok
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Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama (right) and Deputy Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat (second right) participate in a regional election parade in Jakarta on Oct. 29. (JP/Seto Wardhana.)
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ast Cakung residents hope that Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama will visit their area along with Deputy Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat despite the animosity the gubernatorial candidates have faced of late from certain groups in some areas of the city.
Djarot visited the area in East Jakarta and met with the residents on Sunday.
“Pak Djarot, come here again with Pak Ahok,” one of the residents shouted.
“So, Pak Ahok can come here?” Djarot asked residents on Jl. Kayu Tinggi.
“Sure, he may come,” the residents responded.
“There are no refusals here,” another resident was quoted by tribunnews.com as saying.
(Read also:Armed police guard Ahok campaign)
Recently, Ahok’s visits to parts of the city have been met with protests from angry Jakartans and from people outside the official campaign areas.
Ahok decided on Thursday not to campaign at a big event despite securing a large security presence.
The decision was made after Ahok cancelled an event in the North Kedoya area of West Jakarta after seeing hundreds of armed anti-riot police officers deployed to secure the venue on Thursday.
Ahok’s campaign team suspects that the recent protests were organized by certain parties. The campaign team plans to report them to the Jakarta Elections Supervisory Agency.
The agency has noted the protests and has called on people not to halt the campaigns of any governor candidates, saying that disrupting the campaign process could be considered a criminal act.
(jun)
