Mahfud MD Reveals Money Politics And Disease Hoax During Elections

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD at the Jakarta Presidential Palace. (doc. Setkab)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD revealed a number of diseases during the election that must be anticipated from now on. According to Mahfud, the first disease is money politics by buying votes support that can be bought in wholesale or retail. "Political money is an effort to win elections through the purchase of support," said Mahfud MD at the Gakkumdu Center Discussion Forum, as monitored online through the YouTube channel of the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Tuesday, August 8. He said that buying votes in wholesale can be through botoh or officials in villages, sub-districts to KPUs. Even though the KPU is an independent institution, he continued, its members are up to the regions. "Many at the KPU even though it is independent, because the KPU is not only in Jakarta. It exists up to the regions and even the TPS level are all KPUs," he said.

Meanwhile, retail vote purchases are usually referred to as dawn attacks. Based on the results of research conducted by the KPK, it was found that the volume increase in the occurrence of corruption was always in line with the implementation of elections and regional elections. "If based on the results of the research, corruption occurred in 2003 and 2004, then 2008 and 2009, it was before the election. 2014, 2018, 2019, and hopefully this decreased in 2023 and 2024," he said.," said Mahfud.

Then, the second disease is hoaxes or fake news whose contents cause division. In fact, Mahfud continued, elections are expressions of democracy and democracy will become wild and damage society if there is no nonomocracy. "We will enforce it, who is playing with democracy, the nomocracy will be enforced to him. It cannot be in the name of democracy that people divide the lives of our nation and country," he said.