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Netizens slam Kaesang, Erina over lavish US trip amid widespread protests
As House lawmakers moved on Thursday to throw out their proposal to revise the 2016 Regional Elections Law, which would have effectively allowed Jokowi's youngest son to contest the November polls, netizens have slammed Kaesang's wife Erina for posting online pictures showing the couple's lavish spending during their ongoing trip to the United States.
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President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo's son Kaesang Pangarep (left) poses for photographer with his wife Erina Gudono in a social media post. (The Jakarta Post/Instagram/Erina Gudono)
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ndonesian netizens have expressed anger over a luxurious trip to the United States (US) taken by Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) chair Kaesang Pangarep and his wife Erina Gudono amid widespread student protests in the country.
Thousands of university students took to streets across the archipelago on Thursday to protest controversial move by the House of Representatives in an attempt to subvert the Constitutional Court’s rulings on candidate requirements in the 2016 Regional Elections Law.
The protests erupted after the House Legislation Body (Baleg) rushed to revise the prevailing rules on the age of candidacy and other requirements for the regional head elections in November.
The law revision was finished in three back-to-back meetings on Wednesday, just five workdays before candidate registration for the 2024 regional head elections opens on Aug. 27.
Among the proposed revisions was one stating that the minimum age of 30 would apply at the time an elected candidate was inaugurated instead of when potential candidates registered, in direct contradiction to the Constitutional Court ruling on the matter.
Following the student protests however, the House dropped its plan to revise the Regional Elections Law on Thursday.
The House lawmakers’ proposed law revision would have paved the way for Kaesang, President Jokowi’s youngest son, to contest the country’s first simultaneous regional race on Nov. 27.
