Fajarasia.co – The wave of support for Puan Maharani as a presidential candidate in the 2024 General Election is getting stronger with the emergence of various volunteers in various regions, most recently in North Sumatra.
Calling himself Pejuang Puan Maharani, the resident from the western part of Indonesia is determined to support the grandson of the first Indonesian President Soekarno to continue Joko Widodo’s leadership relay.
“The fighter Puan Maharani emerged because she saw that Puan’s potential to lead this country, even though she is a woman, has proven to be successful in balancing President Jokowi’s development, and we all feel that we have a moral burden to support a figure who has been tested and proven,” said Nugra Ferdino, Coordinator of the Puan Maharani Fighter Volunteers. , Saturday 30 July 2022.
The volunteer, he said, was declared on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 with members from various circles who expressed sympathy, hope and belief that Puan Maharani was the right and capable figure to occupy the next Indonesian presidential seat after Jokowi.
“In addition to the matter of continued certainty, Puan Maharani is the hope of our nation in the future, she is accepted by many groups, has the ability to unite the divisive politics that has been burning, most importantly she has an archipelago, not only Java, but outside Java,” he said.
The phenomenon of the emergence of a volunteer movement that supports Puan Maharani, Dedi Kurnia Syah, the executive director of Indonesia Political Opinion assesses that Puan is a figure accepted by various Indonesian people.
“This kind of support has two interpretations, firstly about Puan’s character starting to be known by the public as a potential figure, and having leadership capacity according to public expectations. Second, there is an increase in public sympathy for Ms. Puan, this could be due to the success of political promotions that have emerged so far, or because of the increasing public knowledge of Ms.
Dedi also said that Puan, who inherited the biological and ideological lineage of Soekarno and Megawati Soekarno Putri, became the most potential figure in knitting unity within the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP).
“For the PDIP, it will be much easier to consolidate the party if it carries a main cadre, even more so if it has the symbol of the Megawati breed, because so far it is unavoidable if the size of the PDIP is more due to the Megawati factor,” he said.****
