Kekesalan diluapkan Wakil Menteri BUMN Kartika Wirjoatmodjo atas pembangunan Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung lantaran tidak adanya akses jalan menuju ke sejumlah stasiun.
Dia mengurai bahwa akses jalan menuju Stasiun Karawang dan Stasiun Padalarang belum akan selesai di saat kereta cepat sudah beroperasi. Belum terencananya akses jalan ke stasiun itu baru disadari saat proses pembangunan.
"Dengan PMO yang demikian kompleks, ini missed satu hal, November tahun lalu saya baru sadar, kita lupa mikirin akses stasiun. Ini saya sebel juga waktu kemarin sama anak-anak KAI, jadi akses stasiunnya itu belum dipikirin, tidak ada akses jalan ke tol sama jalan besar," ujarnya.
Kini akses jalan menuju Stasiun Karawang dan Stasiun Padalarang sedang dibangun dan diharapkan akan selesai pada akhir tahun ini.
Itu berarti, pembangunan akses belum selesai di saat Presiden Jokowi meresmikan kereta cepat yang dijadwalkan pada 18 Agustus tahun ini.
Setelah peresmian, Presiden Jokowi juga dijadwalkan akan naik kereta cepat pada 1 September 2023 dan kemudian mengajak Perdana Menteri China menaiki kereta tersebut pada 6 September 2023.
Proyek Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung dikerjakan oleh PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC), yang merupakan perusahaan patungan antara konsorsium BUMN, PT Pilar Sinergi BUMN Indonesia (PSBI), dan konsorsium perusahaan perkeretaapian China, Beijing Yawan HSR Co.Ltd dengan skema business to business (B2B).
Adapun Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung mulanya ditargetkan diresmikan Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) pada 18 Agustus 2023.
Namun Tiko, menyebut Jokowi telah mengkonfirmasi akan naik kereta modern ini pada 1 September 2023, dan kemungkinan diresmikan bersama dengan Perdana Menteri China 6 September 2023 mendatang.
Dengan demikian, akan ada akses jalan di dua stasiun yang belum rampung meski Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung sudah beroperasi. Tiko bilang, hal ini merupakan kebodohan karena stasiun dan kereta siap namun aksesnya yang tidak ada.
Konsorsium BUMN yang terlibat adalah PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk, PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (Persero) atau PTPN, PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk, dan PT KAI (Persero).
Didu: Padahal Anggarannya Sudah Dinaikkan oleh China
Menanggapi hal itu, Mantan Sekretaris Kementerian BUMN Muhammad Said Didu memberikan komentarnya yang menohok.
Dia menyentil KAI yang telah mendapatkan suntikan dana dari China puluhan triliun.
“Padahal anggarannya sudah dinailkkan oleh China puluhan triliun,” ungkap Said Didu yang merupakan pria kelahiran Pinrang Sulawesi Selatan ini, Rabu, (2/8/2023).
Sebelumnya, Wakil Menteri Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) Kartika Wirjoatmodjo mengaku sempat kesal dengan KAI.
Tiko-sapaan Kartika Wirjoatmodjo menyebut KAI lupa memikirkan akses stasiun padahal ini yang penting.
“Saya miss satu hal. November tahun lalu saya baru realized, kita lupa mikirin akses stasiun. Ini saya sebel juga waktu kemarin sama anak-anak KAI, jadi akses stasiunnya itu belum dipikirin,” kata Tiko, hari Selasa, 01/08/2023.
Akses jalan ke Stasiun Karawang dan Stasiun Padalarang belum rampung karena baru dikerjakan pada akhir November 2022 lalu. Baru ditarget Rampung akhir tahun 2023 ini.
Padahal peresmian kereta cepat Jakarta Bandung ini rencananya tanggal 1 September mendatang oleh Presiden Jokowi bersama Perdana Menteri China. Setelah sempat diagendakan 18 Agustus.
Former US President Donald Trump was summoned to the federal court on August 3, he was charged on four counts, according to court documents.
According to the document, the grad jury resolved that the prosecution provided enough evidence to press the following charges: "Conspiracy to Defraud the United States," "Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding," "Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding" and "Conspiracy Against Rights."
The document says that on the evening of January 6, 2021, Trump and his ‘co-conspirators’ "attempted to exploit the violence and chaos at the Capitol by calling lawmakers to convince them, based on knowingly false claims of election fraud, to delay the certification [of the voting result]."
Trump is to appear before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on August 3 at 4:00 p.m. local time (11:00 p.m. Moscow time).
On January 6, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building in Washington DC to stop lawmakers from officially certifying the results of the November presidential election in a last-ditch attempt to prevent Democrat Joe Biden from becoming the new president. One protester was shot dead during the unrest. In addition, three others died, the causes of their deaths were qualified as medical emergencies. Another Capitol Police officer died after the clashes.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said the judicial system has handed down more than 600 guilty verdicts in connection with these events.
Former President Donald J. Trump was indicted on Tuesday in connection with his far-reaching efforts to overturn the 2020 election, part of a continuing federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to cling to power after losing the presidency to Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The indictment was filed by the special counsel Jack Smith in Federal District Court in Washington. It accuses Mr. Trump of three conspiracies: one to defraud the United States, a second to obstruct an official government proceeding and a third to deprive people of civil rights provided by federal law or the Constitution. Mr. Trump is also charged with a fourth count of obstructing an official proceeding.
“Each of these conspiracies — which built on the widespread mistrust the defendant was creating through pervasive and destabilizing lies about election fraud — targeted a bedrock function of the United States federal government: the nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election,” the indictment said.
The charges signify an extraordinary moment in United States history: a former president, in the midst of a campaign to return to the White House, being charged over attempts to use the levers of government power to subvert democracy and remain in office against the will of voters.
The indictment came more than two and a half years after a pro-Trump mob — egged on by incendiary speeches by Mr. Trump and his allies — stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in the worst attack on the seat of Congress since the War of 1812.
It contains snippets of new information, such as the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, imploring Mr. Trump to pull back objections to President Biden’s victory being certified by Congress hours after the rioters entered the building, and Mr. Trump refusing.
A federal grand jury returned the indictment a little more than eight months after Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed Mr. Smith, a career federal prosecutor, to oversee both the election tampering and classified documents inquiries into Mr. Trump. It came just over a year after a House select committee held high-profile hearings on the Jan. 6 attack and what led to it that laid out extensive evidence of Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse the election results.
Mr. Garland moved to name Mr. Smith as special counsel just days after Mr. Trump declared that he was running for president again.
In a statement, Mr. Trump denounced the new charges.
“Why did they wait two and a half years to bring these fake charges, right in the middle of President Trump’s winning campaign for 2024?” he said, calling it “election interference” and comparing the Biden administration to Nazi Germany.
Mr. Trump now faces two separate federal indictments. In June, Mr. Smith brought charges in Florida accusing Mr. Trump — the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — of illegally holding on to a highly sensitive trove of national defense documents and then obstructing the government’s attempts to get them back. He is scheduled to go on trial in that case in May.
The scheme charged by Mr. Smith on Tuesday in the election case played out largely in the two months between Election Day in 2020 and the attack on the Capitol. During that period, Mr. Trump took part in a range of efforts to retain power despite having lost the presidential race to Mr. Biden.
In addition to federal charges in the election and documents cases, Mr. Trump also faces legal troubles in state courts.
He has been charged by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a case that centers on hush money payments made to the porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election.
The efforts by Mr. Trump and his allies to reverse his election loss are also the focus of a separate investigation by the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga. That inquiry appears likely to generate charges this month.
As former President Donald J. Trump campaigns for the White House while multiple criminal prosecutions against him play out, at least one thing is clear: Under the laws of physics, he cannot be in two places at once.
Generally, criminal defendants must be present in the courtroom during their trials. Not only will that force Mr. Trump to step away from the campaign trail, possibly for weeks at a time, but the judges overseeing his trials must also jostle for position in sequencing dates. The collision course is raising extraordinary — and unprecedented — questions about the logistical, legal and political challenges of various trials unfolding against the backdrop of a presidential campaign.
“The courts will have to decide how to balance the public interest in having expeditious trials against Trump’s interest and the public interest in his being able to campaign so that the democratic process works,” said Bruce Green, a Fordham University professor and former prosecutor. “That’s a type of complexity that courts have never had to deal with before.”
The complications make plain another reality: Mr. Trump’s troubles are entangling the campaign with the courts to a degree the nation has never experienced — raising tensions around the ideal of keeping the justice system separate from politics.
Already, Mr. Trump is facing a state trial on civil fraud accusations in New York in October. Another trial on whether he defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll is set to open on Jan. 15 — the same day as the Iowa caucuses. On Jan. 29, a trial begins in yet another lawsuit, this one accusing Mr. Trump, his company and three of his children of using the family name to entice vulnerable people to invest in sham business opportunities.
Because those cases are civil, Mr. Trump could choose not to attend the trials, just as he shunned an earlier lawsuit by Ms. Carroll, in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse.
But he will not have that option in a criminal case on charges in New York that he falsified business records as part of covering up a sex scandal shortly before the 2016 election. The opening date for that trial, which will most likely last several weeks, is in late March, about three weeks after Super Tuesday, when over a dozen states vote on March 5.
In the criminal inquiry into Mr. Trump’s hoarding of sensitive documents, the federal judge overseeing the case set a trial date for May 20, 2024. That is after the bulk of the primary contests and less than two months before the start of the Republican National Convention in July.
Jack Smith, the special counsel, charged former President Donald J. Trump with four criminal counts, involving three conspiracies related to Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the victory of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the 2020 election. Here are some highlights:
Mr. Trump faces a litany of serious charges.
Among the charges, prosecutors said that Mr. Trump tried to defraud the government, deprive people of their right to vote and obstruct an official proceeding. Each of the conspiracies were intended to target the collecting, counting and certifying of the results of the 2020 presidential election. Prosecutors wrote in the indictment that Mr. Trump was “determined to stay in power" and created an “intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith” in the country’s democratic foundations.
Mr. Trump had six co-conspirators, according to the indictment.
The indictment does not name the co-conspirators but the descriptions of them appear to match up with a number of people who were central to the investigation into election tampering conducted by prosecutors working for Mr. Smith. Among those people central to the inquiry were Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer who oversaw Mr. Trump’s attempts to claim the election was marred by widespread fraud; John Eastman, a law professor who provided the legal basis to overturn the election by manipulating the count of electors to the Electoral College; Sidney Powell, a lawyer who pushed Mr. Trump to use the military to seize voting machines and rerun the election; Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official at the time; and Kenneth Chesebro and James Troupis, lawyers who helped flesh out the plan to use fake electors pledged to Mr. Trump in states that were won by President Biden.
Prosecutors say Mr. Trump undertook many schemes to stay in power.
The indictment points to several instances in which Mr. Trump plotted to overturn the election and sow doubt about the votes that were cast in seven states. Prosecutors said that Mr. Trump hatched his criminal scheme after the election and along with his co-conspirators executed a strategy to use “deceit in targeted states.” The indictment lists how Mr. Trump tried to sow doubt in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Prosecutors say Mr. Trump knew he was spreading elections lies.
Vice President Mike Pence said he saw no evidence of “outcome-determinative fraud”; senior Justice Department officials said there was no evidence to support the election fraud claims; and senior White House lawyers also told Mr. Trump the same thing. Among others who delivered a similar message were state legislators and officials as well as the courts that rejected every one of his lawsuits. The courts, prosecutors said, provided “real-time notice that his allegations were meritless.”
How much in this indictment is new?
Much of what is in the indictment is already known because of the work of journalists and the extensive investigation done by the Jan. 6 committee of the House. Still, there appeared to be some new revelations, including the conduct of Mr. Trump and Mr. Clark whom the former president tried to install as the acting attorney general before that effort was thwarted by officials at the Justice Department.
If former President Donald J. Trump wins the presidency even as criminal charges against him still loom, a series of extraordinary complications would ensue.
The indictment on Tuesday on federal charges stemming from his attempts to remain in power after his 2020 election loss added to the mounting legal peril Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Party, faces as he campaigns for a second term in the White House.
In New York, he is accused of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment while the special counsel, Jack Smith, also previously accused Mr. Trump of mishandling national security secrets.
Were a federal case to still be pending on Inauguration Day, Mr. Trump could simply use his power as president to force the Justice Department to drop the matter, as he has suggested he might do.
(It is not yet clear when a trial over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election will start. The classified documents case, which will be tried in Florida, has a date set for May, but that could change depending on how pretrial arguments unfold.)
But the Constitution does not give presidents supervisory authority over state prosecutors, so that would not work for the state inquiries in New York and Georgia, where the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, has indicated she is nearing a decision on charges in her own election-interference investigation.
The most Mr. Trump could probably do is try to delay a trial over any state charges that may be pending. In the past, the Justice Department has taken the position that criminal legal proceedings against a president while he is in office would be unconstitutional because it would interfere with his ability to perform his duties.
There is no definitive Supreme Court ruling on the matter because the issue has never arisen before. In 1997, the Supreme Court allowed a federal lawsuit against President Bill Clinton to proceed while he was in office — but that was a civil case, not a criminal one.
If Mr. Trump were to be convicted in one or more cases, he is almost certain to pursue appeals, delaying any sentencing and all but ensuring he is not incarcerated by Inauguration Day. The question would then arise of what would happen if he took office for a second term.
Should Mr. Trump be convicted in a federal case, he would likely then move to pardon himself, a power he claimed in 2018 that he had the “absolute right” to wield. It is not clear whether a self-pardon would be legitimate.
No text in the Constitution bars a president from doing so. But in 1974, the Justice Department issued a terse legal opinion stating that President Richard Nixon did not appear to have the authority to pardon himself “under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case.”
But the opinion did not explain what transformed that principle into an unwritten limit on the power the Constitution bestows on presidents. Legal experts have disagreed on that question, but no president has ever claimed he was pardoning himself, so it has never been tested in court.
In such a scenario, Mr. Trump is almost certain to use his control of the Justice Department to ensure that it sides with him on whether a self-pardon is legitimate. If prosecutors do not challenge a self-pardon, it is not clear who else would have legal standing to pursue the matter.
Should Mr. Trump be convicted in New York or Georgia, he could not pardon himself because the Constitution does not empower a president to forgive state offenses. That is instead a power wielded by governors. If the relevant governor did not pardon him, he could seek a federal court order delaying any incarceration — or requiring his release from prison — while he is the sitting president, on constitutional grounds.
Yet another possibility is that if he is incarcerated, upon the start of his second term, he could be removed from office under the 25th Amendment as “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
But that outcome would require the majority of a president’s cabinet, along with the vice president, to make such a determination. Among the questions that possibility would raise is who would qualify as a cabinet member if the Senate has not confirmed any new political appointees by Mr. Trump
More than 1,000 people have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.
Nearly 1,100 people have been charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the Capitol. Credit... Jason Andrew for The New York Times
Even as the special counsel, Jack Smith, pursued an investigation of former President Donald J. Trump for seeking to overturn the 2020 election, the Justice Department did not slow its sweeping pursuit of pro-Trump rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
As of July, prosecutors have charged nearly 1,100 people in connection with the attack. The Justice Department could ultimately bring indictments against as many as 1,000 more in the months to come.
More than 350 people charged so far stand accused of assaulting police officers, including about 110 who used a deadly or dangerous weapon. Another 310 people have been charged with the obstruction of an official proceeding, the go-to count that prosecutors have used to describe how members of the mob disrupted the certification of the election that was taking place inside the Capitol at a joint session of Congress.
More 100 rioters have gone to trial in Federal District Court in Washington, starting with Guy Wesley Reffitt, a Texas militiaman who was convicted in March 2022 of helping to lead an advance against the police that resulted in the first violent breach of the Capitol.
The vast majority of those who have faced trial have been found guilty of at least one crime or another; only two people — a former government contractor from New Mexico and a low-level member of the Oath Keepers militia — have been acquitted of all the charges they faced.
About 560 defendants have been sentenced. Of those, more than 330 have been ordered to serve some amount of time in prison.
The most serious and complex trials so far have involved the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, another far-right organization. The leaders of the groups — Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio — were both convicted of seditious conspiracy along with some of their lieutenants.
Mr. Rhodes, who founded the Oath Keepers in 2009, was sentenced in May to 18 years in prison — the longest sentence given so far in any Jan. 6 criminal case.
Mr. Tarrio is expected to be sentenced this summer.
Sodetan Sungai Ciliwung yang sempat mangkrak 6 tahun akhirnya resmi diresmika Presiden Joko Widodo di Jakarta, pada hari Senin, 31/07/2023. Jokowi terpantau hadir sekitar pukul 08.40 WIB mengenakan kemeja putih.
Ia didampingi Menteri Pekerjaan Umum dan Perumahan Rakyat Basuki Hadimuljono, Menteri Sekretaris Negara Pratikno, dan Pj Gubernur Heru Budi.
"Hari ini telah selesai dikerjakan Sodetan Ciliwung. Dan untuk penanganan (banjir) di Jakarta belum cukup," kata Jokowi dalam sambutan.
Jokowi menjelaskan penanganan banjir di Jakarta harus dilakukan dari Hulu ke Hilir. Tentunya adanya sodetan ini bakal melengkapi proyek anti banjir Jakarta lainnya yakni Bendungan Ciawi dan Sukamahi di Bogor Jawa Barat meski dinilai belum cukup.
"Untuk penanganan banjir di Jakarta itu belum cukup karena kita di Jakarta tidak hanya mengurusi Sungai Ciliwung saja, ada 12 Sungai lain yang perlu ditangani secara baik ada sungai Sunter, Sungai Cipinang, Sungai Baru Barat, Sungai Baru Timur, sungai mookervart, sungai Pesanggrahan dan lain-lainnya," imbuhnya.
Jokowi juga menyebut pembangunan proyek ini membutuhkan waktu hampir 11 tahun. Sehingga dengan selesainya proyek ini setidaknya bisa membuat 6 kelurahan di Jakarta tidak bakal kena banjir.
Foto: Presiden Joko Widodo saat menghadiri peresmian sodetan Ciliwung. (CNBC Indonesia/Emir)
Presiden Joko Widodo saat menghadiri peresmian sodetan Ciliwung. (CNBC Indonesia/Emir)
"Dan dengan selesainya sodetan Ciliwung ini juga menyelesaikan banjir Jakarta, baik tadi yang bendungan Ciawi, sukamahi, sedotan Ciliwung, normalisasi Ciliwung, Banjir Kanal Timur bisa menyelesaikan baru kira-kira 62% dari persoalan banjir yang di Jakarta artinya masih ada PR 38% ini harus dikerjakan," kata Jokowi.
Untuk diketahui proyek ini mulai dikerjakan pada tahun 2013 usulan Joko Widodo saat menjadi gubernur. Lalu 2015 sempat berhenti pekerjaannya karena persoalan pembebasan lahan hingga 2021 mulai kembali dikerjakan. Adapun biaya pembangunan proyek memakan biaya investasi mencapai Rp 1,2 triliun.
Dengan adanya Sodetan Ciliwung itu, Jokowi menyebutkan masih ada 38 persen masalah banjir di Ibu Kota yang harus diselesaikan Pemerintah pusat dan Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta.
"Artinya, masih ada PR (pekerjaan rumah) 38 persen. Ini yang harus dikerjakan bersama sama Kementerian PUPR dan Pemprov DKI Jakarta. Sekali lagi, harus dikerjakan bersama-sama Kementerian PUPR dengan Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta, bersama-sama. Ini persoalan yang sangat kompleks dan tidak mudah," tegas Jokowi.
Dengan penyelesaian Sodetan Ciliwung itu, Jokowi menargetkan setidaknya enam kelurahan di Jakarta tidak lagi mengalami banjir.
"Urusan Sodetan Ciliwung ini sudah bertahun-tahun, sudah hampir 11 tahun, dan hari ini alhamdulillah selesai. Ini bisa menyelesaikan paling tidak enam kelurahan nggak banjir lagi," tambahnya.
Menurut dia, penanganan banjir Jakarta harus dilakukan dari hulu sampai Baca juga: Pemkot Jaktim segera kerja bakti bersihkan sampah di proyek sodetanhilir.
"Tidak bisa dilakukan hanya di hilir saja. Oleh sebab itu, tahun yang lalu telah selesai kami bangun di Bogor yang namanya Waduk Ciawi dan Waduk Sukamahi di tahun 2022," kata Jokowi.
Dia juga mengingatkan penanganan banjir di Jakarta tidak cukup hanya mengatasi masalah di Sungai Ciliwung.
"Karena kami di Jakarta tidak hanya mengurusi yang namanya Sungai Ciliwung saja. Ada 12 sungai yang lain yang juga perlu ditangani secara baik; ya, Sungai Sunter, Sungai Cipinang, Sungai Baru Barat, Sungai Baru Timur, Sungai Mookervart, Sungai Pesanggrahan, dan lain-lainnya," jelasnya.
Masalah lain yang belum tertangani, menurut Jokowi, adalah banjir rob yang naik ke daratan DKI Jakarta.
"Sekali lagi, penanganan banjir Jakarta ini harus dilakukan dari hulu sampai hilir secara komprehensif," ujar Jokowi.
At least 44 people were killed and over 130 injured when a suicide bomber set off explosives at a political rally in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police and rescue officials said.
The blast took place at a gathering of the conservative Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party, known for its links to hardline political Islam, in the former tribal area of Bajaur, which borders Afghanistan.
An emergency has been declared in the hospitals of Bajaur and adjoining areas where most of the injured were taken, said district police officer Nazir Khan. The critically injured were transported from Bajaur to hospitals in the provincial capital Peshawar by military helicopters.
A statement from Rescue 1122, a first-responder service, put the death toll at 42.
Khan said the explosion, at a JUI-F workers convention in Khar town of Bajaur, had left more than 130 injured, many seriously.
Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Haji Ghulam Ali, prays along with people while visiting a man, who was injured, after a blast in Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan July 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
The provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat told Reuters the explosion was caused by a suicide bomb.
Pakistan has seen a resurgence of attacks by Islamist militants since last year when a ceasefire between the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamabad broke down. A mosque bombing in Peshawar killed over 100 people earlier this year.
While the TTP and its associated groups have been behind a majority of attacks in Pakistan in recent months, the group distanced itself from Sunday's attack, which its spokesman condemned.
The TTP pledges allegiance to, but is not directly a part of, the Taliban in western neighbour Afghanistan. Pakistan's security forces say the TTP have sanctuaries in Afghanistan, which the Taliban run-administration there denies.
Aftermath of blast in Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Afghanistan's administration condemned the explosion in a statement by their spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
The TTP are not the only militant group to carry out attacks in the area, which has also been hit by a local chapter of the Islamic State.
The targeted party, the JUI-F, is a major ally of the coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, which is preparing for national elections to be held by November.
Sharif condemn the blast, calling it an attack on the democratic process of Pakistan. He vowed that those responsible would be punished.
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan also condemned the explosion in posts on messaging platform on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Saudi Arabia condemns attack on rally in northwest Pakistan
Saudi Arabia condemned and denounced an explosion that tore through a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday.
At least 44 people were killed and over 200 injured as a result of the blast that took place at a gathering of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party in the former tribal area of Bajaur.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry reaffirmed the Kingdom’s rejection of violence and terrorism anywhere in the world, and expressed its solidarity with Pakistan and its people.
The ministry offered its condolences to the families of the victims and the government and people of Pakistan, wishing the injured a swift recovery.
Rescue workers transport injured person to hospital after a blast in Bajaur
Para Ketua DPD I Partai Golkar saat berkumpul di Bali/Net
Ketua DPD Golkar Provinsi Papua, Ahmad Doli Kurnia Tandjung mengurai bahwa sebanyak 38 ketua DPD I Golkar hadir dalam pertemuan tersebut. Mereka tegas menyatakan penolakan pada wacana musyawarah nasional luar biasa (munaslub).
Para pemimpin tingkat provinsi itu turut menyatakan komitmen dan taat pada keputusan munas, rapimnas, dan rakernas.
"100 persen kami di sini menolak munaslub. Kami ingin fokus bekerja untuk memenangkan agenda politik 2024 bersama Pak Airlangga Hartarto," tutur Doli saat menggelar konferensi pers di Hotel Mulia Resort, Nusa Dua Bali, hari Minggu, 30/07/2023.
Dalam pertemuan ini digelar atas inisiatif para ketua DPD sebagai pemilik suara dalam munas Golkar. Mereka memastikan akan tetap setia pada putusan muna, rapimnas, dan rakernas untuk urutan pilpres. Yaitu, menyerahkan mandat pada ketua umum untuk menentukan siapa capres atau cawapresnya.
DPD Golkar seluruh provinsi di Indonesia juga menyatakan memberikan mandat pada Airlangga dalam proses negosiasi, strategi, dan momentum terkait Pilpres 2024.
"Kami sudah melihat ketua umum kami cukup aktif untuk berkomunikasi dengan semua pimpinan parpol," ujar Ketua Komisi II DPR dari Fraksi Golkar ini.
Ahmad Doli menegaskan seluruh DPD Golkar juga mendorong Airlangga bisa tetap bersama dan berkomunikasi dengan Presiden Joko Widodo. Termasuk dalam menghadapi Pilpres 2024.
"Kami sangat berharap Pak Airlangga bisa bersama membangun komunikasi yang intensif untuk menghadapi agenda kedepan, agenda pemerintah dan pemilu bersama dengan Pak Jokowi," ujar Doli.
100 Persen Bulat, Ketua DPD Golkar Se-Indonesia Tolak Munaslub
Sebanyak 38 ketua DPD Provinsi Partai Golkar menyatakan menolak adanya wacana musyawarah nasional luar biasa (munaslub). Mereka juga menegaskan taat pada satu komando di bawah kepemimpinan Ketua Umum DPP Partai Golkar Airlangga Hartarto.
Plt Ketua DPD Golkar Provinsi Papua Ahmad Doli Kurnia Tandjung menuturkan, seluruh ketua DPD provinsi meminta pertemuan dengan Airlangga di Bali. Dalam pertemuan itu, sebanyak 38 ketua DPD menegaskan komitmen dan taat pada keputusan munas, rapimnas, dan rakernas.
"Kami menyatakan 100 persen, kami di sini menolak munaslub. Kami ingin fokus bekerja untuk memenangkan agenda politik 2024 bersama Pak Airlangga Hartarto," kata Doli dalam keterangan pers di Hotel Mulia Resort, Nusa Dua Bali, Minggu, 30/07/2023.
Doli menambahkan, pertemuan 38 DPD Golkar provinsi dengan Airlangga Hartarto adalah inisiatif para ketua DPD. Sebab, DPD merupakan pemilik suara di munas Golkar.
"Kedua, untuk urusan pilpres sebagaimana yang diputuskan dalam munas, rapimnas, dan rakernas, kami sepenuhnya sudah menyerahkan mandat pada ketua umum untuk menentukan siapa capres atau cawapresnya," tegas Doli.
DPD Golkar seluruh provinsi di Indonesia juga menyatakan memberikan mandat pada Airlangga dalam proses negosiasi, strategi, dan momentum terkait Pilpres 2024.
"Kami sudah melihat ketua umum kami cukup aktif untuk berkomunikasi dengan semua pimpinan parpol," ujar Ketua Komisi II DPR dari Fraksi Golkar ini.
Doli menegaskan seluruh DPD Golkar juga mendorong Airlangga bisa tetap bersama dan berkomunikasi dengan Presiden Joko Widodo. Termasuk dalam menghadapi Pilpres 2024.
"Kami sangat berharap Pak Airlangga bisa bersama membangun komunikasi yang intensif untuk menghadapi agenda kedepan, agenda pemerintah dan pemilu bersama dengan Pak Jokowi," ujar Doli.
Kemudian, 38 Ketua DPD juga menyatakan siap tempur di wilayah masing-masing untuk kemenangan Partai Golkar di Pemilu 2024. Baik pemilihan legislatif, pemilihan presiden, maupun pilkada.
"Kami ini pakai seragam yang sama, ini seragam baru kami, kuning loreng, ini menunjukkan kami siap tempur di lapangan," tegas Plt Ketua DPD Golkar Papua didampingi 37 ketua DPD Golkar provinsi seluruh Indonesia.
