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00:00 The Constitutional Court's decision on the age limit for the Cawapres-Cawapres case on Monday, 16 October 2023, surprised many parties.
00:13 This decision is considered a tragedy of democracy.
00:16 In a number of early hearing decisions, the Supreme Court rejected the request for a minimum age reduction of Cawapres-Cawapres to 35 years.
00:26 However, in the decision of the ruling read later, the Supreme Court rejected some of the requests that the requirement for the nomination of Cawapres-Cawapres is experienced as the head of the region.
00:38 The ruling of the age test of Cawapres-Cawapres is indeed called to make sure that the son of President Jokowi, Gibran Rakabuming, becomes Cawapres.
00:49 Gibran, who is currently the mayor of Solo and is 36 years old, became one of the candidates for the Prawowo-Cawapres, which is led by the Indonesia Onward Coalition for the 2024 presidential election.
01:03 A political observer at the University of Al-Azhar, Ujang Komarudin, on Monday, 16 October 2023, noted that there was a "systematic, structured, and massive design" in the Supreme Court's decision on the age limit for the Cawapres-Cawapres case.
01:19 He said the effort was made to get Gibran to compete in the 2024 presidential election.
01:27 Ujang said this Supreme Court decision is a high-level political game.
01:32 According to him, the legal institutions can still be controlled by the authorities.
01:38 In responding to this Supreme Court decision, hundreds of citizens from the education world, religious figures, and artists expressed their concern after the Constitutional Court approved the age limit for Cawapres and Cawapres, still 40 years, with an exception record, have experienced as the head of the region.
01:59 A speech expert, Usman Hamid, said the 2023 Constitutional Court's decision was a "reformation back to zero".
02:09 The decision was full of anxiety, panic, and anger at the elite's behavior in the presidential election and the 2024 presidential election, which violated the Constitution.
02:20 Even democracy is now called "worse" than "new order".
02:26 On the other hand, President Jokowi himself did not want to give an opinion on the Constitutional Court's decision on the age limit for Cawapres and Cawapres, which was read by his cousin.
02:38 He asked for this matter to be asked directly to the Supreme Court.
02:42 Jokowi also refused to assume that when asked about Gibran, who will truly move forward to become Cawapres.
02:50 He asked for it to be asked to the political party.
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