The Jokowi National Secretariat (Seknas Jokowi), a volunteer group that has backed the incumbent since 2014, said it was devising programs to be included in the state-led 2025-2045 National Long Term Development Plan (RPJPN), with the primary goal of offering it up to Jokowi’s eventual nominees.

The President has been telling his various support groups to wait for his signal to back a candidate of his choice in the next election -- barring any clear indication that a three-term extension for himself was completely out of the picture.

During a focused group discussion on Monday, Seknas Jokowi’s chairman of the advisory council, Warsito Ellwein, said the platform henceforth known as Agenda 45 aims to inspire civic participation for the country’s future by focusing on food, energy, culture, governance and geopolitics.

He said the voices of the people would be accommodated in the Agenda 45 platform, which would then be submitted to the government when the drafting of the next RPJPN begins.

Consequently, the platform would also be used as the basis of a campaign platform for the eventual presidential nominee, one that they must be held accountable to if elected in 2024.

“We offer up this program. So if the candidate wants to be elected, they must see it through,” Warsito told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

Meanwhile, Seknas Jokowi’s general secretary, Rambun Tjajo, insisted that no one has been named and that the volunteer group would continue following Jokowi’s orders.

“We highly respect Pak Jokowi. His current order is, ‘wait for my instructions,’” Rambun told the Post separately.

“We hope the agenda can be adopted by the presidential candidate, so that our future leaders will have a consistent political platform to act on,” he added.

The platform, once completed, will be submitted to the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) in the form of an academic script. It is hoped to be used as the basis for issuing legislation relevant to the country’s development.

Rambun underlined that political will on the part of the future president and lawmakers would be key to its implementation.

As election season slowly comes into full swing, political parties have begun to pair up to nominate their preferred candidates.

On the one hand, the NasDem Party announced its top three potential nominees -- Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Indonesian Military Commander Gen. Andika Perkasa -- at the end of its national congress last month.

On the other hand, some political parties have chosen to pair up without immediately divulging their preferred candidates.

Golkar, the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the United Development Party (PPP) have created the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB), while Gerindra, which is likely to nominate its chairman Prabowo Subianto to run very soon, is likely to form an alliance with the National Awakening Party (PKB).

The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which is able to nominate its own candidate pairing without the need of a coalition, has also deferred judgment to its chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri. The matriarch is expected to name her own daughter, Puan Maharani, having rejected the notion of nominating based on electability ratings.

Meanwhile, Jokowi, despite being a member of the PDI-P, looks likely to use his political capital as president to nominate his own candidate with support from his volunteer groups, although he has yet to declare officially who to back.

Nevertheless, the President is seen to have given his implicit support to fellow PDI-P member Ganjar, who has been immensely popular in public opinion polls, during a rally that both figures attended in Central Java in May that was organized by another Jokowi support group, Projo.

In the meantime, for as long as Jokowi has not declared his support for any candidate, Rambun said that Seknas Jokowi would keep its options open and would welcome any figures who are interested in the group’s suggested programs.

“For now, we will welcome anyone, but it is also fine if no one is interested. For us, the most important thing is to promote the platform as part of an inclusive political process,” he said.