I Will Probably Send BEM UI to Asmat, President Jokowi Says

President Jokowi responds to the journalists’ questions after an event at Salafiyah Syafi’iyah Islamic Boarding School Sukorejo, Situbondo, East Java, on Saturday (3/2) (Photo: BPMI)

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo responds the act of the Chairman of the University of Indonesia’s Student Executivce Body (BEM UI) who raised a yellow book after he just finished his remarks at the 68 Dies Natalis of the University of Indonesia, in Depok, West Java, on Friday (2/2).<>

The President was not offended with this action. “I think it is good to have someone to remind us,” says the President in Salafiyah Syafi’iyah Islamic Boarding School Sukorejo, Situbondo, East Java, Saturday (3/2).

The President also says that he will invite several representatives of BEM UI to visit Papua to see the real situation as well as handling measures done by the Government.

“I will probably send the Chairman and members of BEM UI to Asmat. Let them see the real condition as well as big problems in regions, especially Papua,” the President further says. (BPMI/EN)(MMB/YM/Naster)