Cak Imin Touches on Prabowo Subianto's Land in Vice Presidential Debate

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - In the second debate session, Vice Presidential Candidate Number one Muhaimin Iskandar a.k.a. Cak Imin touched on farmers' land ownership. According to him, local farmers do not have minimal land for farming.

Cak Imin then referred to BPS data, Indonesian farmers for the last ten years only owned half a hectare of land.

"In the last ten years, the number of smallholder farmers has reached almost 3 million, this means that 16 million farming households only own half a hectare of land," said Cak Imin, in the fourth debate in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres), which was held on Sunday, 21st of January 2024 at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Central Jakarta.

Continuing his views on farmers' land, Cak Imin then touched on Presidential Candidate number 2, Prabowo Subianto, regarding his statement of land ownership in the Presidential Candidate debate the other day.

"Meanwhile, there is someone who owns 500,000 hectares of land as the authority given to him by the state," Cak Imin continued.

In the previous presidential candidate debate session, presidential candidate number 1, Anies Baswedan mentioned the land owned by Prabowo with an area of 340,000 hectares.

In Prabowo's statement during the consolidation of volunteers in Pekanbaru, he said that the data was wrong. According to Prabowo, the total amount of land he owns in the form of Cultivation Rights (HGU) is close to 500,000 hectares.

“Before becoming a minister, I was a businessman, I controlled land with rights to cultivate. "Yesterday we were wrong, it was not 340,000 hectares, no, it was closer to 500,000 hectares," said Prabowo, at the Youth Center, Pekanbaru, Tuesday, January 9, 2024, monitored by Tempo via YouTube.

Prabowo then emphasized that the land had been handed over to the state and used for a food estate project.

"There was Pak Jokowi there at the time. I was at the Palace 2.5 years ago and I handed over the land to the state." Prabowo emphasized.

This presidential candidate debate is the second round of a series of vice presidential debates and is the fourth of a total of five debates that have been scheduled by the General Election Commission (KPU) before the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres) approaches on February 14.

The focus of the debate theme this time includes issues of sustainable development, natural resources, the environment, energy, food, agrarian affairs, indigenous communities and villages. The participants in tonight's debate are the three Vice Presidential candidates, namely Muhaimin Iskandar, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, and Mahfud MD. Tonight's debate was attended by the three vice presidential candidates, Muhaimin Iskandar, Gibran Rakabuming Raka and Mahfud MD.

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