Bawaslu Drops Case Of Handing Out Rice For Adama's Complaints, Appi Team Calls The Kalla Foundation's Groceries

MAKASSAR - There are allegations of distributing basic necessities with the reported pair of candidates for mayor-deputy mayor of Makassar Munafri Arifuddin-Abd. Rahman Bando (Appi-Rahman) was stopped handling by Bawaslu Makassar. The reason is not enough evidence related to this report.

"We received this report on October 22 and we handled it at Setra Gakkumdu. Last night it was discussed and it was decided that this report was discontinued, it could not be continued in the investigation process because there was not enough evidence to fulfill the elements of Article 187 A paragraph (1)," said the Coordinator. The Makassar Bawaslu Eradication and Handling Division, Sri Wahyuni, was contacted by VOI, Friday 30 October.

Meanwhile, the head of the Appi-Rahman legal team, Yusuf Gunco, said that the distribution of groceries had nothing to do with Appi-Rahman. The distribution of basic necessities on September 26 was carried out by the staff of the Hadji Kalla foundation as a routine humanitarian activity in a series of commemoration of the Kalla Group's anniversary.

According to Yusuf Gunco, the distribution of groceries is always carried out every year on the momentum of the Kalla Group's birthday. Therefore, the report from the team of the candidate pair Ramdhan 'Danny' Pomanto-Fatmawati Rusdi is considered baseless.

"I think it is natural to stop it, it is natural to stop it because the candidate pair number 1 report is baseless. Because the distribution of rice was not a designation and it was not us who did it. Hadji Kalla's foundation held every birthday, not a new Makassar mayoral election, he said," said this man who is familiarly called Yugo.

Previously, Danny Pomanto-Fatma's legal team reported the Appi-Rahman candidate pair about distributing rice to residents. The spokesperson for the legal team for the candidate pair, known by the acronym Adama, Akhmad Rianto, said the report included a video of the distribution of rice on Jalan Cenderawasih, Lorong 31, Mariso District or right behind Jusuf Kalla (JK) 's house.