Ahok shows PDI-P leanings in a series of tweets

By Andra Nasrie

Oct 28, 2014 | 12:31pm Jakarta time

Love or hate President Joko Widodo’s 34 chosen cabinet ministers, everybody’s got an opinion on the matter. Even Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, former Vice Governor of Jakarta to Jokowi, had something to tweet about.

A series of tweets from Ahok’s account (@basuki_btp) congratulated Jokowi and his ministers on beginning their five-year term. If Ahok had any criticism for his former boss, it’s because he thinks Jokowi did not elect three people Ahok thought would make great ministers.

Selamat untuk kabinet kerja Jokowi-JK. Semoga bisa bekerja cepat dan tepat untuk terwujudnya Indonesia Baru.

— Ahok Basuki TPurnama (@basuki_btp) October 27, 2014

Congratulations to Jokowi-JK’s cabinet. I hope you can get down to work quickly and efficiently to create a new Indonesia

Ke depan saya mengharapkan pemerintahan Jokowi-JK tetap melibatkan putra putri terbaik bangsa seperti Eva, Rieke& Ara.

— Ahok Basuki TPurnama (@basuki_btp) October 28, 2014

In the future I hope the Jokowi-JK government can include Indonesia’s best people such as Eva, Rieke, and Ara.

Mereka teman2 berkualitas yang saya tau sejak awal berjuang untuk Pak Jokowi.

— Ahok Basuki TPurnama (@basuki_btp) October 28, 2014

Our friends [Eva, Rieke, Ara] possess great quality and I know they worked hard for Jokowi from the beginning.

The three people Ahok mentioned were Eva Sundari, Rieke Diah Pitaloka, and Maruarar Sirait, all gossiped to become ministers for Jokowi at one point or another. The three politicians are also from Jokowi’s PDI-P political party.

Questions were then raised about Ahok’s political leaning following his tweets, since the acting Governor of Jakarta quit Prabowo Subianto’s Gerindra political party over ideological differences.

Tidak masuk pdip, skrg fokus kerja sbg plt gub dki “@totti_mom: Ahok skrg PDIP?”@basuki_btp: ..mengharapkan pemerintahan Jokowi-JK tetap

— Ahok Basuki TPurnama (@basuki_btp) October 28, 2014

I’m not with the PDI-P. I’m focused on work as acting Governor of Jakarta.

Jokowi and Ahok were a match made in heaven when they governed Jakarta. Could it be that Ahok is issuing a plea to PDI-P so he can join them in the near future? Or were his tweets a sign of what he would do if he became Jokowi’s vice-president? 2019, perhaps?

Let’s end this week with a little bit of Jokowi-Ahok bromance

Topics: Jakarta, News, Politics

Ahok shows PDI-P leanings in a series of tweets

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