Minister of Home Affairs Asks DKPP, KPU and Bawaslu to be Neutral

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JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Muhammad Tito Karnavian warned that the Election Organizer Honorary Council (DKPP), the General Election Commission (KPU), and the General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) should act neutrally ahead of the 2024 Election.

"The KPU at the central level only has a number of commissioners, but its network down to the lower level involves almost 2 million people, if I'm not mistaken, how can we make 2 million heads neutral in the same position, with the same way of thinking to create a good election? which is neutral," said Tito in his statement, as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, November 8.

Not only the KPU, he also emphasized that DKPP and Bawaslu, which act as supervisors, must act neutrally. These two institutions are expected to be able to become good and credible referees.

According to him, the 2024 election is the right time for organizers to align their perceptions and understand the challenges they will face.

"DKPP is indeed credible, I understand very well that the person in front of him is a very credible person, and yesterday a regional audit team was appointed. The challenge is how to ensure that this regional audit team thinks the same as the DKPP commissioner leaders who have a good reputation," he said.

Seeing that the challenges were not easy, he asked all parties to continue to monitor the election process. The reason is, elections are an important moment for a democratic country.

Therefore, Tito appealed to the KPU, DKPP and Bawaslu to work together to supervise the elections.

"The regional elections must continue whatever the obstacles, whatever the challenges, we will do our best, nothing will be perfect, let alone equalize human thinking, it will never be the same," explained Tito.

Not only that, he also advised that collaboration between DKPP and Bawaslu run optimally. In this way, both of them were able to overcome various kinds of potential conflicts during the election process.

"Bawaslu is a good referee, and DKPP is automatically an honorary council, a very honorable council, which is the supervising referee for the KPU and Bawaslu organizers who can really maintain honour," he concluded.