Ahok and His Choice

Maybe some of you have already heard that DKI Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahja Purnama has chosen to go with party for the next period election. Before, Ahok -his nickname- was planning to go as independent candidate, not using parties. One million KTP or Identity card also already achieved. But, suddenly Ahok turn down the table, and said that he will go with parties. He will go as candidate from Hanura and Nasdem for now. Well, what a surprised beside reshuffle news in this week(or not *grin).

Of course we still can't forget about what he said about parties, about his disappointed feeling towards parties. He said that going with party will consume a lot of money or there is 'mahar' (read here). Well I still remember in one of event that Megawati and Ahok attended, Megawati refused Ahok donation for her book. She said, "Ntar dibully lagi, dibilang mahar," (read here).  She said that regarding to Ahok opinion about 'mahar politik' in election.

That's why Ahok, in that time decided going as independent candidate. To go as independent candidate Ahok should collect 1 million identity card. He get some help from Teman Ahok. A gorup of young people that feel insecure about parties that's why they decided to help Ahok to go as independent candidate (read their tweet here). But after months later, Hanura and Nasdem decided to help them, and they welcoming them. This we known as 'politik tanpa mahar'.

Although finally they achieved 1 million identity card with lot of struggles, -you know some news regarding how they get their budget and so on-, but many people didn't bother. They still give their identity card to support Ahok. Last month they calculate their identity card that has been collected by them, and yeah they reached their target. Many young people or many people believe that going as independent is a good trend in our country now days.

After all these struggle suddenly Ahok claimed he will go as parties candidate. And moreover, Teman Ahok as voluntary organization -the organization that was amazed us with their braveness- also said will go with them. Well, no wonder, this can be a reason why some people feel disappointed when know Ahok goes with parties (read here).

#balikinKTPGue becoming trending in twitter in July 28th

Many people keep asking the consistency of Ahok and Teman Ahok. And asking what will they do with their identity card, their database. It's so common, because it has their private data, so the data security must be saved.

And secondly, of course we will ask, how about Heru? One civil employee that will go as his partner in the next election. How about Heru fate? Heru is non party public employee. Heru was chosen because PDIP didn't agree if Djarot -the vice governor now- go as independent with Ahok, so Ahok choose Heru. Ahok said that he want to prove that there is a lot off honest public employee (read here).

Many news said that Ahok will go with Djarot . But if he want to go with Djarot of course he must be friend again with PDIP. And Golkar, one of parties that support Ahok also said that Ahok should be partnering with Djarot. (read here)

Despite all of these controversy there still many of people support Ahok, no matter what choice he made.

And in my opinion, as long as no other candidate like Ahok, people will still choose him. It will be a different matter if other 'well known' candidate such as Ridwan Kamil or other compete with him.

How about you? Are you feeling disappointed or this doesn't matter to you?


*)sorry if there are a lot of incorrect grammar.
*)I choose article from different mass media to balance the explanation