The Rest of the Regional Election Record

The Regional Election of Governor and Vice Governor of Jakarta has been over on April 19, 2017. The pair of Anies-Sandiaga is the Winner  and the pair of Ahok-Djarot is the looser. Recently two interesting stories have apparently happened but no one likely tried to analyze what did it actually happened.  

This article is intended to make comment to both the moment considered in relation with the defeat of Ahok who is believed going to win the Election before. Beside of that Ahok is the only address to get almost five thousand of greeting flowers in this amazing event who are as if in general saying Oh Ahok do not worry you are actually the professional leader. The second coment will be made concerning the rise of Anies Baswedan as the Governor Candidate who is said because of Vice President JK's intervention that concluded that Anies Baswedan is the pertinent candidate of the Governor to replace Ahok.

Both amazing event were touching the psychological aspect of the people but with different background and intention. The first event was the booming of greeting flower in Jakarta that reached the number of thousand of greeting flowers send by unnamed persons addressed to respected building such as the Governor Office, the Police Headquarters, and other Government Office Buildings. The flowers was designed in similar sizes, a quarter with similar wide and long and in general it contents of the same expression on the highest respect to Governor Ahok as the professional, brilliant and wise leader who has led to develop Jakarta beautifully, though he is defeated in the last Regional Election of Jakarta.

The easy conclusion of the event could be compounded that those greeting flower sending movement was organized by the supporters of Ahok or the activity that is done by Ahok himself.

Those expression were clearly intended to express the deeply regret that Governor Ahok lost in the present regional election. This regret is as if expressed by Ahok followers. Indirectly those thousand of flowers are also intended as cynical regret for the people who do not elect Ahok as the Governor of Jakarta.

Luckily the hoax on Cabinet Reshuffle was roaming around together with the roaming around of hoax saying that the Ministerial jobs are waiting for Ahok after he lieves his Governor job. The booming of greeting flowers to Ahok could be definitely manipulated as supporting and hoping President Jokowi will elect Ahok as the new Minister to replace the vacant Ministerial job because of Cabinet reshuffle. Accordingly the Sending of almost five thousand of greeting flowers is considered as the political psychological warfare replacing the campaign through distributing papers, mass gathering or publishing news paper and leaflet.  

Luckily the people kept quiet and no response was made so the situation of pro an cons was not seen. However apparently the will to demonstrate that Ahok-Djarot is actually the best pair of Governor formed this greeting flower booming demonstration though it is really crazy but it created the best style of political psychological warfare.
 
Well this is the first event we take note in in the rest of the last event of the Regional Election of the Governor and Vice Governor of Jakarta.

This first interesting event was apparently followed by another event happened in the relation of the Regional Election of Jakarta. Without clear intention and reason suddenly Zulkifly Hasan, The Chairman of the PAN Political Party released a background story telling that the rise of the name of Anies Baswedan as the Governor Candidate who is supported by Gerindra Party and PKS is because of political intervention and raised by Vice President Yusuf Kalla.

This story was becoming the heavy debate among the political community but it was definitely rejected by Fadly Zone, the Vice Chairman of Gerindra Party who said the rise of the name of Anies  is purely came from Prabowo's own idea.  

The rejection of Fadly Zone was debated by Vice President Jusuf Kala, who frankly declared and recognized that as a private capacity Vice Presiden Yusuf Kala is the person who raised the name of Anies presented to Prabowo because Anies is soft and moderate figure, to have strong leadership, clever, clean and definitely known well by President Jokowi. Vice President JK said Anies could be the Governor and Sandiaga as Vice Governor. Under this leadership partnership Jakarta will definitely modernly develops significantly while the situation will be peaceful, orderly, cool and orderly.

Vice President JK said he is not wrong, as Vice President he did not interfere the Problem faced by Gerindra Party and PKS in looking for the partner of Sandiaga, President JK just clarified that his view was presented to Prabowo once when he privately met Prabowo while they were incidentally going abroad.

He did not say it as if he is the Vice President or to give it as the firm order of any superior leader to Prabowo. AS Vice President he did not make any intervention. However this statement is definitely surprising because it definitely has shown Prabowo how is the way to defeat Ahok, Prabowo should choose a highly mature and qualified figure as the partner of Sandiaga to defeat Ahok.

Likely Vice President JK felt as a private person expressed his view as a private Political Observer, as also the individual right of Vice President as the Citizen of Indonesia, because definitely as Vice President he should never say it to Prabowo because definitely he knows all the Cabinet Members should support Ahok. So Vice President JK never made any intervention to the problem of any political party. He speak to Prabowo as a private person.
 
Previoiusly it was likely designed Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono is going to be matched with Sandiaga but apparently SBY decided Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono to be matched with Silvy as Vice Governor. The partnership between Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono with Sandiaga is likely impossible because Gerindra Party is the political home of Sandiaga while Gerindra is not the close partner of the Democratic Party as the political home of Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono.

Zulkifli Hasan in making complete of his released story said after Vice Presiden JK raised the name of Anies, Prabowo as the Chairman of Gerindra Party supported by PKS instantly agreed the establishment of the pair of Anies as the Governor and Sadiaga as the Vice Governor candidate.

The Greeting Flower Booming Action

Observer tend to analyze the Greeting Flower Booming Action that is strongly believed organized by the supporter of Ahok is not apparently to regret to the result of the Regional Election but it is in the relation of speculation on the possible Cabinet Reshuffle and strong hoax said Ahok will be the pertinent candidate as one of the Minister.  

Being firm leader, professional and as experience leader Ahok is definitely considered a pertinent choice for the Cabinet Minister to lead the poor Ministry and accordingly reshuffle would be made.

*) Written by Political and Security Observer lives in Jakarta.