JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Two groups of people will stage a public rally on Monday (Mar. 2) at the Jakarta city hall to show their supports over Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, in conflict with the city legislative council (DPRD).
The police, meanwhile, has deplored about 160 officers to the location to secure the rally.
On Sunday (Mar. 1), a group of people called themselves as “Teman Ahok” or “Ahok’s Friends” already staged a public rally at the Bunderan Hotel Indonesia (HI) during the Car Free Day (CFD) activity.
Interestingly, different group of people also staged a rally against Ahok yesterday. But fortunately, there was no unimportant friction occurred between the two groups.
As reported earlier, the DPRD Jakarta has launched a motion to use its inquiry right against Ahok related to the deliberating process of the Jakarta 2015 provincial budget (APBD). The DPRD accused Ahok of deliberately sabotaging their budgeting right. By law, the use of inquiry right would lead into an impeachment over Ahok.
Ahok, meanwhile, fights back by revealing about DPRD’s engineering on a mysterious Rp12.1 trillion budget into the Jakarta 2015 APBD. (haryantosuharman@yosefardi.com)