Jakarta – Prime Minister Singapura Lee Hsien Loong congratulated presidential candidate number 2 Prabowo Subianto who succeeded in the preliminary calculation of the 2024 presidential election.
“Lee and Prabowo discussed the very good bilateral relationship,” said the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary, Chang Li Lin, quoted from the Singaporean media, Channel News Asia, Thursday (15/2).
Chang revealed that Lee and Prabowo also discussed an agreement on the importance of identifying new areas of mutually beneficial cooperation for both countries.
Lee also reportedly contacted President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to congratulate the smooth and successful implementation of the 2024 election in Indonesia.
In addition, Chang said that during the second term of the two leaders, Lee and Jokowi sought to strengthen the close relationship between Singapore and Indonesia through the resolution of long-standing bilateral issues.
“They also pioneered new areas of cooperation in sustainability, digital economy, and human capital development,” said Chang.
Quick count results after the voting on Wednesday (14/2) showed that Prabowo had a great chance of becoming the next president of Indonesia.
When speaking together with vice presidential candidate number 2 Gibran Rakabuming Raka at Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Prabowo promised to be a president for all layers of Indonesian society.
“Whatever their ethnicity, group, ethnicity, race, whatever their religion, social background, all Indonesian people will be our responsibility to take care of,” said Prabowo.
“We will form a government team consisting of the best sons and daughters of the Indonesian nation,” he added.
Based on the latest calculation data from the General Election Commission (KPU) at 17.28 WIB on the pemilu2024.kpu.go.id website, the Prabowo-Gibran pair is in the top position with a 56.32% gain from the progress of 43.93% of the votes.
From the results of quick counts by several survey institutions, Prabowo-Gibran leads by almost 60%. According to the calculation of the Populi Center with 99.72% of the data entered, Prabowo-Gibran leads with 59.13%. Meanwhile, Poltracking with 95.9% of the data entered, Prabowo-Gibran leads with 59.34%. (SENOPATI)
