Author: yosefardi.com

PP Muhammadiyah, the second largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, is finally following the footsteps of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Islamic organization in the country, in accepting the odd policy issued by the outgoing President Jokowi, which allows a religion-based mass organization (ormas) to control special mining permit and or special mining concession (WIUPK). Muhammadiyah will announce its official decision tomorrow (Jul. 27) during its National Consolidation meeting held in Yogyakarta.

In a previous article, we’ve talked about our analysis on the strategy of Prabowo-Gibran’s coalition in the 2024 simultaneous regional elections. On Thursday (Jul. 25), Idrus Marham from Golkar, a key member of Prabowo-Gibran’s coalition, confirmed our analysis.

Pretty much as predicted, the selection of the new leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has given the opportunity to both those in power and those in the opposition to put their guys at the helm of the Agency for the next period of 2024-2029. In the previous article, we’ve mentioned two candidates: Sudirman Said, who is known close to Jusuf Kalla and Anies Baswedan, and Ike Edwin, a retired two-star police general and now a politician from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s (SBY) Democratic Party. In this article, let’s talk about some other candidates worth highlighting for their political connections.