JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Anindra Ardiansyah Bakrie aka Ardi Bakrie, son of Golkar Party Chairman Aburizal “Ical” Bakrie and President Director of Viva Group, has angrily ordered the chief editors of Viva.co.id, a news portal controlled by Bakrie family, to remove the political advertisement of Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and PDI-P.
Today (April 8), the national media outlets have widely picked up the report published in the Kompasiana blog by Susi Avivah regarding the anger of Ardi Bakrie over Jokowi’s political ads displayed in Viva.co.id.
The blogger, in her article, published Ardi’s private email which ordered to remove Jokowi’s political ads that asks people to vote for PDI-P. In the email, Ardi threatened the chief editors of Viva.co.id to resign if rejecting the instruction.
Kompas.com reported that its sources confirmed that the leaked Ardi’s email is true. But unfortunately, Uni Zulfiani Lubis, one of chief editors of Viva.co.id whose name mentioned in Ardi’s email, was reluctant to give any comment.
Lalu Mara Satria Wangsa, Spokesperson of Bakrie family, also denied the leaked email.
As reported earlier, various surveys predicted that Jokowi and his PDI-P will win April’s legislative and July’s presidential elections.
Jokowi himself has cemented the perception on him as a demigod presidential candidate whereas various surveys showed that Jokowi’s astronomical approval rating is far away above his rivals such as Prabowo Subianto, Ical, Wiranto, Jusuf Kalla, etc. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)