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Jokowi support group hashes out campaign platform for 2024
Seknas Jokowi insists that no one has been named as a presidential candidate and that the group would follow President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo’s instruction not to rush into an election frenzy.
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo speaks at an event on May 15, 2015, organized by Relawan Jokowi at the Cibubur camping ground in East Jakarta. The President has several different volunteer groups that have supported him from the outset of his presidential bid, and looks increasingly likely to rely on them to find his successor in the 2024 general elections. (kompas.com/Sabrina Asril Ribuan )
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s supporters have begun drafting a campaign platform for the incumbent’s eventual choice of candidate to run in the 2024 general elections, lining up suggestions for priority legislation to be pursued should the presidential hopeful succeed in forming a government.
The Jokowi National Secretariat (Seknas Jokowi), a volunteer group that has backed the President 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.
