PORTALJABAR, GARUT REGENCY - The Garut Memilih Community, initiated by Garut youth, held a public discussion entitled "Ngagurat Garut Edition 01 | Exploring Vision and Mission: Building Garut with Ideas, Not Promises".

The activity took place at the Main Atrium of Citimall Garut, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, Karangpawitan District, Garut Regency, on Saturday (10/26/2024).

This discussion aims to explore the vision and mission of the candidates for regent and deputy regent who will compete in the Simultaneous Regional Elections in Garut Regency.

Garut Memilih Coordinator, Ilyasa Ahmad Maskawaih, stated that the “Ngagurat Garut” program was held as part of a series of activities leading up to the regional elections.

This activity brings together the successful teams of the two pairs of candidates for regent and deputy regent in an open discussion that can be accessed by the wider public.

Ilyasa explained that Citimall was chosen as the location for the event so that the general public who were doing activities there could participate in listening to the presentation of the vision and mission of each candidate's successful team.

"Why is the campaign team involved because the campaign team is the face of the candidate pair, therefore we want to measure whether the campaign team understands the candidate pair's vision and mission program or not," he said.

The event also involved several youth communities, including the OSIS of SMA Negeri 1 Garut, Mojang Jajaka of Garut Regency, GenRe Ambassadors of Garut Regency, Putra Putri Pendidikan of West Java, and Reading Ambassadors of Garut Regency.

According to Ilyasa, the involvement of the campaign team is based on the fact that the official forum for the candidate pair is the domain of the Garut Regency General Election Commission (KPU). This activity is also expected to create synchronization between the candidate pair and their campaign team.

"Alhamdulillah, after we held the discussion forum earlier, it turned out that there was synchronization between the candidate pairs and their campaign teams. So it can be concluded that God willing, both candidate pairs have the goal of advancing Garut like that," he said.

In the next series of activities, Garut Memilih plans to hold a second series of webinars in November.

The webinar will be held in collaboration with Bijak Memilih and Bijak Pilkada, continuing the first series of webinars that were previously held. In the next series, the discussion will focus on how students and the general public can better understand the work programs and backgrounds of the two candidate pairs.

"We will discuss further about the background and track record of each candidate pair. In addition, there will be a Pilkada Festival in collaboration with Circle Waves and Bijak Pilkada, where we will launch a series of activities," said Ilyasa.

Ilyasa advised all the people of Garut, from generation Z to the boomers generation, to use their right to vote wisely, by making several considerations so that they can become intelligent voters.

"Let us see and think constructively how we choose a leader," he concluded. (Garut Communication and Information Service/Revo)