Jakarta Globe, Adelia Anjani Putri & Basten Gokkon, Oct 17, 2014
This file picture taken in Jakarta on July 20, 2014 shows Prabowo Subianto, left, gesturing next to President-elect Joko Widodo, right, at the presidential palace in Jakarta. (AFP Photo/Adek Berry) |
Jakarta.
President-elect Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, meeting for the first time in
about three months, said that they would work together to maintain stability in
government.
“[Prabowo]
said to me that, in the future, should there be anything to be criticized in
our administration, I’m ready because stability in state management is very
important,” said Joko, who went to Prabowo’s house in South Jakarta on Friday
morning.
“There’s
the doer, the controller, and then there’s the criticizer. I think that’s a
good thing, and I’d like to thank Prabowo for that,” Joko said.
Prabowo
said that he will ask his supporters to support Joko’s presidency. Prabowo’s
Red-White coalition has the majority of the seats in legislature.
“I ask my
party and supporters to support Joko and the government. We will criticize him
should there be policies harming the people’s interest.”
He also
asked his supporters to reconcile, despite political differences between his
supporters and those of Joko’s.
“I will
tell my supporters that political competition is a normal thing but in the end,
all that we do is to achieve the nation’s prosperity and progress,” Prabowo
said. “I hope the supporters don’t see the differences and competition between
us as a reason to divide the people. We must stay united as one Indonesia at
all times.”
“In this
friendly meeting, I congratulate Joko who will be sworn in and inaugurated as
the president on Oct. 20,” Prabowo said. “I believe that he is a patriot and
deep down we have the same intention to guard Indonesia’s unity and its
constitution.”
Regarding
Joko’s inauguration on Monday, Prabowo said he would to try his best to attend
the ceremony.
“I heard
the invitation will come at 3 p.m. today. It’s the norm that if one is invited,
he should fulfill it. I have to go abroad tonight or tomorrow morning, but if
I’m done by Sunday night, I promise to do my best to attend the ceremony,” he
said. “If I can’t make it, Pak Joko already knows the reason.”
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