Jokowi-Amin Offers Concrete Solutions in the First Debate

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By:
Agung Sudrajat *

The
first debate between the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair has
taken place. The two candidate pairs, Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin and Prabowo
Subianto- Sandiaga Uno have demonstrated their skills and there has been a
heated debate between the two pairs of candidates. It is not difficult to judge
who is superior in the first presidential and vice presidential debates debate,
because it can be seen as a whole Jokowi-Ma’ruf pair has mastered the debate
theme namely Law, Human Rights, Corruption and Terrorism and appears more
concrete, calm and not abstract in applying vision and their mission. When compared
to the Prabowo-Sandiaga camp that only relied on rhetoric, abstracts, it seemed
panic, and stunned when responding to a number of critical questions from the
opposing camp.

In
the debate, the issues raised regarding the issue of equal rights for diffable
groups, for example, Jokowis concretely stated that the government had and
would continue to make it happen, for example giving equal bonuses to Asian
Paragames achievers with last year’s Asian Games athletes. When Jokowi
explained the concrete steps, the Prabowo-Sandiaga camp actually gave answers
that seemed out of context. The two presidential candidates made economic
issues a solution to overcome the problem of discrimination for people with
disabilities and even as a solution to overcome terrorism. Even though related
to the issue of terrorism, the most recent research shows the fact that this is
not a welfare case because a number of perpetrators even come from middle-class
families.

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01 also feels far superior about the topic of corruption, which Jokowi sees
corruption as a matter of mentality, because it must be done systematically.
While Prabowo actually wants to raise the salaries of officials as a solution
to overcome corruption. He nullified the fact that many officials who were entangled
in corruption were those who had fantastic assets. In addition, Jokowi also
gave an example of how he built an anti-KKN culture in his family environment.
This is evident from Jokowi’s children who did not pass the CPNS test and no
one played in the state project. It was precisely in the opposite camp, it was
very clear Prabowo as the general chairman of the Gerindra party had a role in
signing the passing of former corruption prisoners as party candidates.

In
the legal field as well, we see together in the debate that Jokowi offers
concrete solutions related to overlapping legal regulations between the center
and the regions by making a kitchen for legal drafting and not just gathering
legal experts and making synchronization. The solution is better when compared
to Prabowo’s presidential statement regarding the president’s highest
leadership in law enforcement or the chief of law enforcement, because actually
a President is indeed the highest leader in law enforcement and is not a new
issue at this time.

Meanwhile,
Prabowo’s solution to legal issues only increases the salary of bureaucrat
bureaucrats through a tax ratio of 16 percent to suppress corruption, which is
considered to make people miserable because of tax increases. Prabowo’s plan
will attract large amounts of tax from the people to prosper civil servants who
will indirectly make the people suffer more. Since the beginning, Prabowo’s
vision of corruption has been very inconsistent. Prabowo said he would punish
corruptors by putting them on remote islands and employing them in continuous
sand mines, but on the other hand he defended six former Gerindra candidates
who were corruptors by saying that the corruption he considered was not much.
It’s ironic to see this fact.

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FISIP Student at Udayana University

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