Bawaslu Asked To Firmly Affirm Election Rules, Including Curi Start Campaign Through Billboards

Ganjar Mahfud's Billboard In Bali Brought Down By Bali Satpol PP (VOI)

JAKARTA - The General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) is asked to be firm and not selective in enforcing regulations related to the 2024 General Election, including stealing campaign starts.

"Bawaslu must be firm here, not be picky," said Chairman of the Network For Indonesian Democratic Society (Netfid) Indonesia, Afit Khomsani, in a statement to reporters, in Jakarta, Monday, November 13.

It is known that the KPU has determined 3 pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates who will contest the 2024 presidential election. Today, the three of them will only draw serial numbers for election participants. The KPU has not yet scheduled the Paslon to campaign.

Afit then highlighted the issue of election violations related to the removal and installation of billboards. According to him, this problem should be noted by election organizers.

"There are installations and decreases in billboards in several places, of course, it shows that there is still no agreement between election organizers. What is clear is that the campaign stage has not been implemented," said Afit.

Therefore, Afit appealed to the public to play an active role in supervising the course of the election. And dare to report allegations of fraud involving state tools.

"If there is and is proven, there is a use of the government's strength in favor of one of the candidates, it is obligatory for us to report this," said Afit.

Previously, the Civil Society Coalition for the Democratic Election urged Bawaslu, the National Police Commission (Kompolnas), the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) to be proactive in taking action against state officials who participate in the stage process until the 2024 General Election.

This is in response to the alleged involvement of the police in the 2024 election contestation, which has happened recently. For example, the removal of billboards for the prospective presidential-cawapres candidate Ganjar-Mahfud pair in Bali, to the installation of the Prabowo-Gibran billboard in Central Java which was allegedly carried out by the police.

"We view this condition as making democracy and elections unhealthy and unhealthy because power uses all of its political forces to win their candidate, Prabowo-Gibran," said the chairman of PBHI, Julius Hebrew, Monday, November 13.

According to him, the installation of billboards allegedly carried out by the police clearly injures the apparatus's neutral attitude and is a form of election fraud. He considered that the installation of billboards by the police further showed that President Jokowi continued to use all his strengths to win his son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, in the 2024 election.