PDIP dan Nasdem Bertekad Bangun Pemerintahan yang Solid
Jokowi: PDI Perjuangan and Nasdem Wish to Build Strong Indonesian Government
Reporter : Rizki Saleh
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Joko ´Jokowi´ Widodo, bakal calon presiden dari PDI Perjuangan mengatakan Partai Nasional Demokrat (Nasdem) dan PDI Perjuangan memiliki keinginan yang sama yakni membangun pemerintahan presidensial yang kuat.
"Kami ingin mengembalikan lagi roh presidensial yang kuat dalam pemerintahan mendatang," kata Jokowi sapaan Joko Widodo setelah bertemu Ketua Umum Partai NasDem Surya Paloh di Kantor DPP Partai NasDem, Jakarta, Sabtu.
Selain itu, kata Jokowi, PDIP dan Partai Nasdem juga memiliki keinginan kuat untuk menyejahterakan rakyat.
Koalisi yang dibangun PDIP dan NasDem, kata Jokowi menegaskan, tidak berlandaskan transaksi. Partai NasDem sama sekali tidak membahas soal pembagian kursi menteri di kabinet.
"Kami buang jauh-jauh hubungan transaksional. Kami (PDIP dan Partai Nasdem) setuju hal itu. Kami sepakat menghindari hal itu. Saya menghargai kebesaran hati Bang Surya yang tidak mengedepankan pembahasan cawapres atau kabinet. Ini kebesaran hati seorang negarawan," kata Jokowi.
Sementara itu, usai pertemuan, Ketum Partai NasDem Surya Paloh, menyatakan partainya secara resmi mendukung Joko Widodo sebagai calon presiden yang diusung PDI Perjuangan dalam Pemilu 2014.
"Kami sepakat merapatkan barisan mendukung calon presiden PDI Perjuangan. Partai NasDem akan memberikan dukungan sepenuhnya," katanya.
Surya mengatakan Partai NasDem ingin membangun Indonesia menjadi lebih baik pada masa mendatang bersama PDI Perjuangan. "Kami menginginkan Indonesia ke depan lebih hebat," ujarnya.
Selain itu, Surya mengatakan, Partai NasDem akan membahas lebih lanjut terkait perumusan konsep pemerintahan yang akan dibangun periode mendatang. Pembahasan itu, termasuk membicarakan soal calon wakil presiden (cawapres).
"Ini masih tahapan diskusi pemikiran apakah Partai Nasdem akan endorse cawapres. Pembahasan lebih lanjut 2-3 hari ini akan dibicarakan dengan Ketua Umum PDIP Megawati Soekarnoputri," ujar Surya.
Jakarta (B2B) - The presidential candidate of the Indonesia Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, said his party and the National Democrat Party (NasDem) shared a common desire to build a strong presidential system of government.
"We wish to restore the spirit of a strong presidential system of government for the next government," he said after meeting with NasDems chief Surya Paloh at the NasDem party headquarters here on Saturday.
He added that PDIP and Nasdem also have a strong common desire to improve the welfare of the Indonesian people.
He said the coalition that PDIP and Nasdem would build would not be based upon transactions, and during the meeting there had not been talk about the distribution of ministerial posts.
"We avoided a transactional relationship. We (PDIP and Nasdem) agreed with the idea. We also agreed to avoid it. I expressed my appreciation to Bang (Brother) Surya, who would not prioritize discussions of vice presidential posts or cabinet posts. He has statesmanship," Jokowi said.
Surya Paloh, meanwhile, said on the occasion that his party had formally expressed its support to Joko Widodo as a presidential candidate in the election on July 9.
"We have agreed to close ranks to support the PDIPs presidential candidate. The Nasdem Party would fully support him," he said.
Paloh said Nasdem wished to build Indonesia to become a better country in the future, along with PDIP.
"We wish Indonesia would be greater in the future," he said.
He noted that Nasdem Party would discuss the concept of the type of government that would be built during the next administration, including the vice presidential candidate.
"It is still being discussed as to whether Nasdem Party would only endorse a vice presidential candidate. We will discuss it with PDIPs general chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri in the next two or three days," he said.
PDIP was the winner of the legislative elections on April 9, garnering around 19 percent of the votes, based on quick vote counts, while Nasdem Party finished eighth with 6.71 percent of votes.
PDIP needs to join with other parties in order to meet the presidential threshold set at 25 percent of national votes or 20 percent of parliamentary seats totaling 560.
Results of the official count by the General Elections Commission will be made known early next month.
