As an independent figure, Anies must work extra hard to convince political parties and on the other hand they must open themselves to accept figures outside the party but fulfill all the requirements needed to represent them in the 2024 presidential election.
According to the Secretary General of the Mileanies 24 National Network, Mr. Muhammad Ramli Rahim, if political parties and the people can objectively see Anies’ results and achievements during his reign as governor, they will without hesitation choose the originator of Movement of ‘Indonesia Mengajar’ as a Presidential Candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election.
JAKARTA | KBA – The name of the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, continues to be discussed and decorated a number of reports from various electronic, print and online mass media.
Two momentums helped lift Mr. Anies Baswedan’s name, namely the five-year celebration of the 2024 presidential election (Pilpres) and Anies’ tenure as governor which will soon end on October 16, 2022.
Jakarta, which is now considered much better and developed thanks to Anies Baswedan’s cold hand, and the emergence of volunteers in a number of areas who voiced Anies to run in the 2024 presidential election, show that Anies Baswedan is indeed worthy of consideration.
A politician from the Nasdem Party even suggested recently that Anies had to go up a class from the leadership of the number one person at the provincial level to a national leader as Presidentl . Moreover, his name is also consistently perched in the top three survey results of a number of political survey institutions.
His success in building DKI Jakarta to be on a par with developed cities in the world has made Governor Anies Baswedan the favorite name to run in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
Consistently in the top three in the presidential candidate survey, Governor Anies is said to be a potential figure who is predicted to have a high chance of winning the electoral contest in 2024.
In fact, according to the General Chair of the Mileanies 24 National Network, Muhammad Ramli Rahim, if it is objective to look at Governor Anies’ performance with all his achievements and achievements, almost 100 percent of the Indonesian people will vote for the initiator of the Teaching Indonesia Movement.
“Anies Baswedan can do so much in various sectors in Jakarta, although there is still much more to be done. While the previous governors after 1998 were not like that,” said Rahim in a written statement quoted from Liputan6.com in Jakarta, Thursday, January 13, 2022.
Rahim said Anies’ performance could be compared with any governor who is still alive at this time. “Anies’ achievements are very far compared to other regional leaders or former regional leaders who are still alive,” said Rahim.
Previously, the Executive Director of the Indonesian Political and Social Center (Puspolindo) Dian Cahyani assessed that the strengthening of Governor Anies’ name in the 2024 presidential election was in line with his work in building and changing the increasingly organized face of Jakarta.
“In general, I see that Anies’ chances in the 2024 presidential election are quite good, especially since he is currently still serving as the Governor of DKI Jakarta. So he has the capital to embrace the community more,” said Dian Cahyani to KBA News, Monday 29 November 2021.
In addition to real work, Governor Anies is also known as a smart and polite leader. According to Dian, this is very appropriate for the future national leadership.
“The figure of Mr. Anies who is wise and intelligent in leading, we can see that Jakarta can be organized more neatly and traffic jams are reduced. This is a great achievement,” he admitted.
The Master of Political Communication at Mercu Buana University explained that the chance for Governor Anies to win the 2024 presidential election is very wide open. Because, in addition to performance, the former minister of education and culture is also said to have very promising electability capital.
However, the step to be able to move forward in the presidential candidate market is not easy, considering whether or not someone advances in the presidential election (still) depends on the political party.
In this section, Anies must work extra hard to melt the hearts of political parties and on the other hand political parties must also open the doors of their hearts wide for potential non-party cadre figures such as Anies Baswedan.
Gun Gun Heryanto, Executive Director of The Political Literacy Institute, in the Column of Experts, Media Indonesia, Monday, October 11, 2021, said that currently the market for names of potential figures is starting to be predicted.
He refers to Judith Trend and Robert Friendenberg in their book, Political Campaign Communication Principles and Practices (2015), this stage is referred to as the surfacing stage before the other three stages are carried out, namely the primary, nomination, and election stages.
In the primary stage, said Gun Gun, it is very decisive because in a competitive situation whether a candidate is able to convince political forces such as a political party to give a ticket to become a presidential/vice-presidential candidate or not.
Moreover, in Indonesia, presidential elections can only be contested by pairs of candidates who are officially registered by political parties and do not allow the emergence of independent candidates. In Indonesia, this is increasingly complex given the high presidential threshold requirements.
Then who is the prospective figure in the 2024 presidential election? Gun Gun said, there are many factors that can be observed, read, and calculated at the same time. Certainly not a single factor and will be greatly influenced by the political dynamics that occur.
However, in general, say Gun Gun there is a pattern that often repeats itself. In terms of political communication, since the first direct presidential election in 2004, there have been two styles of political communication that have often become strong electoral magnets in every presidential election. The two styles, namely the equalitarian style and the structuring style.
Gun Gun said that Anies Baswedan was included in the structuring style communication style group. This style emphasizes measurement, prudence, self-respect and rules, systematic, thinking, and speaking in a schematic and organized manner.
According to Gun Gun, in getting to the 2024 presidential candidate market, there are at least three main challenges that will be faced by a number of figures who are now predicted by many people. First, attacks on personal and current positions. Anies Baswedan, for example, started getting a lot of attacks.
Second, challenges in the management of their political image and reputation. How they articulate political publicity and political public relations strategies to keep the audience’s attention positive. Anies’ term as Governor of DKI will end in 2022, and the new elections will take place in 2024.
According to Gun Gun, he must be good at managing this crucial phase in order to remain a prospective figure in the upcoming presidential election.
Third, the challenge of political communication with the main elites in political parties who will carry or support them. This requires flexibility, networking, and its own expertise considering that it is not easy to ride in the midst of elite interests on the one hand and waves of public expectations on the other. (kba)
