Poster of Jokowi Donning Javanese King Costume Not Black Campaign
14 November 2018 20:52 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) considered a poster of presidential hopeful Joko `Jokowi` Widodo donning costumes of Javanese King circulated in Central Java was not a black campaign act.
“After we review the poster, it does not lead to hate speech, black campaign, or contain SARA (ethnicity, religion, and race),” said Bawaslu official Ratna Dewi Pettalolo today, November 14, in her office in Jakarta.
Ratna explained the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) first reported that the poster was defamation which aimed to attack the incumbent candidate. However, Bawaslu deemed it was not an act of black campaign.
“Thus, we take down the posters as PDIP claimed that they did not produce it and asked to remove it,” said Ratna.
Several posters displaying a photo of Jokowi wearing costumes of Javanese King with the logo of PDIP were spread in several locations in Central Java.
The spokesman of Jokowi-Ma’ruf National Campaign Team (TKN), Ahmad Basarah, opposed the poster was advertised by his team. PDIP secretary-general Hasto Kristiyanto, meanwhile, said the banner was a new kind of black campaign acts and that certain parties deliberately fabricated his party’s campaign tools.
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