Thousands of People Sign Petition to Refuse Corona Law, Dozens of National Leaders Participate

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Thousands of people have signed the petition "Laws of 1/2020 on Corona Pandemic Handling". Not only ordinary citizens, dozens of national figures participated in signing the petition. Jokowi's position seems increasingly vulnerable in the midst of this corona pandemic.

As is known, Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) 1/2020 on State Financial Policy and Financial System Stability for Handling Covid-19 Pandemic continues to reap controversy. Moreover, later it was revealed, there was a special staff of the president who got the jataj project related to handling covid.

Not accepting these conditions, on the Change.org page, a petition with which was signed by 3,216 people per Sunday evening (19/4). According to the maker, Agus Muhammad Maksum, the reason the petition was made was because the government was using the Covid-19 pandemic to issue policies to use state money without supervision.

"Hurricane Covid claimed many lives throughout the world, various countries issued policies and large funds to fight Covid-19 and defend the lives of its people," Agus wrote as reported by rmol. Id

"But in Indonesia it is busy dealing with its economy, Perppu 1/2020 actually uses Covid to issue policies to use state money for economic packages without supervision and can be criminalized," he said sarcastically.

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In addition, according to Agus, in the midst of such a threatening pandemic, the government is also busy giving projects to digital startups for collusion and corruption in Pertamina projects, personal protective equipment (PPE), education, and so on. "(Yang) was linked in the context of Covid-19 to rake in state money for his cronies," Agus added.

According to Agus, the Covid-19 pandemic that struck the business of western countries actually contradicted the unbalanced principle of the Pancasila economy.

"Then the steps of corruption, collusion, and nepotism which ignores the fate of the people, they practice to survive the storm. While the people who should be focused in the storm, are not a priority," he said furiously.

In the petition, 23 names of figures who joined in the Sovereignty Concern Community Coalition action to sue the law to the Constitutional Court.

Among them are Din Syamsuddin; Amien Rais; Marwan Batubara; Former Member of Indonesia Council 1999-2004 from PAN, Hatta Taliwang; Taufan Maulamin; Syamsulbalda; Abdurrahman Syebubakar; Romli Kamidin; Former Minister of Forestry and former UN Chair, MS Kaban; Darmayanto; and Gunawan Adji.

Next is Indra Wardhana; The former Corruption Eradication Commission advisor, Abdullah Hehamahua; Former Presidential Spokesman Abdurrahman Wahid, Adhie Massardi; 1998 activist and former Chair of SM ITS, Agus Muhammad Maksum; Lecturer at Tarumanagara University, Ahmad Redi; Bambang Soetedjo; Ma'mun Murod; Indra Adil; Masri Sitanggang; Sayuti Asyathri; Muslim Arbi; and Roosalina Berlian. ***

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