MidLand, Jakarta – President of the political working group Green peace Indonesia, Khalisah Khalid responded to the victory of the pair of presidential candidates number 2, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka (Prabowo-Gibran) based on fast calculation results several research institutes have stated that over the next five years, Indonesia can be expected to potentially continue to face great or even more difficult challenges, especially in the context of issues of democratic backsliding and injustice in human rights law and enforcement.
“Where the environmental and climate agenda can only be implemented if democratic space is opened up and justice and respect for human rights are the basis,” Khalisah told Tempo, Friday 16 February 2024.
However, he said that as a final reference, we still have to wait for the completion of the official or actual counting results by the General Election Commission or KPU. “We wait and monitor the manual vote counting process that is still ongoing, especially since there are still TPSs conducting follow-up voting,” she said.
As for the results of the legislative elections, according to him, it would certainly be interesting to observe them. He hopes that there are several political parties that will play the role of a strong and coherent opposition. “Various misguided policies and alleged violations of the constitution, law and even ethics carried out by President Jokowi occurred due to the absence of a strong opposition in parliament which acted as a counterweight to various reckless and power-driven policies,” he said. said.
According to him, even if Prabowo-Gibran will eventually be declared the winner by the KPU, there will be many notes related to environmental issues that will be included in the vision and mission and will become a political reference. “Their desire to continue Jokowi’s programs, like those of IKN and Rempang, will be bad news for indigenous and local communities who have so far been marginalized by government projects,” he said.
Despite all this, according to Khalisah, Greenpeace calls on civil society movements, communities and citizens to continue to be courageous and choose to speak out and move together. Beyond that, strengthen the strength of the civil society movement as an opposition/balance group outside parliament, as well as continue to strengthen citizens’ political awareness through coherent political education and organization.
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“It is not easy. Political parties should perform these tasks and roles, but whether we like it or not, we as a civil society must also perform these roles in the future more solidly, tenaciously and persistently,” he said.
He said it is very important for civil society to continue to be critical and remind all future government elites not to support and advance reckless power policies, nor to advance and advance development policies that are clearly harmful to communities indigenous and local people of the region. at the site level, they perpetuate human rights abuses and harm the environment.
The preliminary results of the General Election Commission or KPU real count from Friday morning, February 16, 2024, still show the number two candidate pair Prabowo-Gibran Rakabuming Raka ahead of the other two candidate pairs.
According to the KPU official website, as of 09:30 WIB, the vote counting process was 417,089 out of 823,236 polling stations or TPS, a percentage of 50.66%. Prabowo-Gibran was leading with 30,224,843 votes (56.8%), followed by the number one candidate pair Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar with 13,427,157 votes (25.23%) and the number three candidate pair Ganjar Pranowo -Mahfud Md with acquisition of 9,559,888 votes (17.97%). .
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