Jokowi: "Karir Politik Saya Berawal di DPC PDIP Brengosan Solo"
Jokowi Starts Political Career from District Party Level
Reporter : Rizki Saleh
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Presiden RI periode 2014-2019 terpilih berdasarkan keputusan Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU) berkomentar dan mengenang karir politiknya saat mengunjungi Kantor Dewan Perwakilan Cabang Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (DPC PDIP) Brengosan Purwosari, Solo.
"Karir politik saya dari bawah di DPC PDIP Brengosan ini. Dan, pertama berkenalan dengan Pak Hadi Rudyatmo pada 2004. Saya kemudian mencalonkan menjadi Wali Kota Surakarta 2005 bersama Pak Rudyatmo pada 2005," katanya, belum lama ini.
Jokowi berkunjung ke kantor DPC PDIP Brengosan didampingi oleh Wali Kota Surakarta Hadi Rudyatmo dalam acara penanaman pohon dan tanaman bunga-bungaan seperti bugenvil dan ekor tupai di halaman kantor.
Menurut Gubernur DKI Jakarta tersebut, penanaman tanaman bunga-bungaan diharapkan dilakukan semua kantor di Solo, termasuk DPC PDIP di Bresongsan, supaya menjadi sejuk.
Jokowi sebelumnya juga mengunjungi ke beberapa lokasi guna bertemu masyarakat, seperti tukang becak di Pasar Nongko, Gede, Pusat Grosir Solo (PGS) dan sepanjang Jalan Slamet Riyadi di Solo untuk bersalaman dan berterima kasih atas dukungan mereka saat Pemilihan Umum Presiden (Pilpres) 2014.
Hadi Rudyatmo, yang juga Ketua DPC PDIP Surakarta, kunjungan Jokowi ke kantor partainya itu guna mengenang perjalanan karir politiknya sebelum diharapkan dapat dilantik menjadi Presiden RI pada 20 Oktober 2014.
"Beliau sebelumnya punya rencana akan menanam tanaman bunga di halaman kantor DPC PDIP agar menjadi sejuk," katanya.
Ketika ditanya wartawan, apakah Jokowi akan mengajaknya ke Jakarta berkaitan rencana penyusunan kabinet pemerintahan? Rudyatmo menjawab, tidak membicarakan hal itu.
"Saya ini hanya petugas partai. Saya bertugas untuk dilaksanakan, jika ada perintah dari Ibu Megawati sebagai Ketua Umum PDIP," katanya menambahkan. (Ant)
Solo (B2B) - Indonesian Presidential-elect Joko Widodo said here on Thursday he had started his political career from the Brengosan office of the Indonesia Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP) chapter in Laweyan, Solo, Central Java.
"This office reminds me of the start of my political career by running for city mayor," he said when visiting the office, recently.
During the visit, marked by a tree-planting event, he was accompanied by Solo Mayor Hadi Ridyatmo.
"I started my political career at the grassroots and first met Hadi Rudyatmo in 2004. I later ran for Solo mayor in 2005 with Rudyatmo as my running mate," he recalled.
Before visiting the PDIP branch office, he met pedicab drivers at Nongko, Gede, and Solo wholesale markets and along the citys Slamet Riyadi main road to thank them for their support.
Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, currently Jakarta governor, had recently been declared by the General Elections Commission (KPU) as the winner of the July 9 presidential election. He ran for president with former vice president Jusuf Kalla as his running mate.
His rival, former military figure Prabowo Subianto who paired with former economic minister Hatta Rajasa, however, had rejected the results of the election citing massive and systematic frauds in a number of regions in the country and had filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court.
Hadi Rudyatmo, who is also the current head of the PDIP Solo chapter, hailed Jokowis visit to Brengosan, saying as Jokowi began his political career from Brengosan, it was appropriate for him to visit the office before he is inaugurated later as president.
Regarding the possibility of being nominated as member of Jokowis cabinet, Rudyatmo said that they had not discussed about it.
"I am only a party worker. I will only carry out my duties if I am ordered by Megawati as the general chairperson of PDIP," he said.
Jokowi is currently preparing a list of ministers to fill his future cabinet.
