Jokowi Targets to Gain 80 Percent Votes in Bangka Belitung
17 September 2018 07:14 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Pangkalpinang - Would-be presidential and vice-presidential candidates Jokowi and Ma`ruf Amin were targeted to achieve 80 percent votes in Kepulauan Bangka Belitung Province in the 2019 presidential election.
The coalition party supporting Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin and the volunteers expressed optimism that the target could be achieved considering the incumbent candidate gained significant votes in the province in the previous election in 2014.
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Bangka Belitung Chairman, Didit Srigusjaya, said the target was quite realistic considering Jokowi previously won 67 percent votes in the 2014 election and he had accelerated and completed several strategic projects of national development in the province.
"We want Jokowi to continue this successful development. To make a realization of this [target], we have completed the campaign team formation, tasks, and program planning," Didit told Tempo on Sunday, September 16.
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According to Didit, Jokowi's campaign team is now becoming solid, helped by four active volunteer groups. The coalition party along with Jokowi's volunteers, he added, would campaign wisely and not commit blasphemy or spread hatred. "The important thing is that we achieve victory by delivering good things as Jokowi will do and has done thus far," he said.
The campaign team coordinator in Bangka Belitung, Rudianto Tjen, said that the target of 80 percent votes would be gained because one of Jokowi's achievement was the less blackout that often occurred in the region. "One of [Jokowi`s] work that benefits for the local people is that we never feel electricity outage again. 24 hours electricity is available now," he said.
According to Rudianto, with such visible developments, the target of winning 80 percent votes in the 2019 election was not something impossible to realize. "We will surely work hard by promoting a positive campaign," he concluded.
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