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Jokowi's ban on third-term talk could improve confidence: Analysts
Analyst Kevin O'Rourke of the Reformasi Weekly Review said that Jokowi's statement marked a partial step toward reining in the postponement campaign.
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This handout photograph taken and released by the Presidential Palace on March 15, 2022 shows Indonesia’s President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo looking at the sunrise after spending the night at a campsite in Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan, where the government will build its new capital city replacing Jakarta. (AFP/Presidential Palace)
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's instruction to his ministers to cease calls for a term extension or postponement of elections due in 2024 is the first step toward improving confidence that Indonesia will sustain its democratization, an analyst said on Thursday.
Analyst Kevin O'Rourke of the Reformasi Weekly Review said that Jokowi's statement marked a partial step toward reining in the postponement campaign.
"Prohibiting key ministers from campaigning openly for election postponement should severely curtail their ability to pressure parties to concede to amendments," O'Rourke said.
On Tuesday, President Jokowi, ordered his Cabinet to stop bringing up the idea and instead focus on addressing economic hardships being faced by the public.
"Don't let there be anyone who talks about delaying [the election], or an extension [of the presidential term]. Enough," he told a plenary Cabinet meeting.
O'Rourke however warned that the next major test for the country's democracy would be whether political parties at the House of Representatives agreed by next month to provide the General Elections Commission (KPU) with the funding it requires to commence its preparations for balloting.
Others however have called on the President to make his position clearer.
