KPU Guarantees Professional Work To Anticipate Cheating In The 2024 Election

The General Elections Commission (KPU) has stated that it will anticipate fraud in the 2024 General Election by conducting professional work as an election organizer.

"We anticipate (the potential for fraud in the 2024 election) with professional work in terms of the organizers," said KPU member Mochammad Afifuddin as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 31.

The man who is familiarly called Afif emphasized that fraud in the election should have been anticipated.

"The name contestation, people's efforts to win in a good or not good way, right or not true, must be anticipated," he said.

Therefore, he continued, Indonesia also has an electoral supervisory agency, namely the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu).

In addition, there are also press personnel and civil society groups who can play a role in supervising the implementation of the 2024 General Election so that it runs well and in accordance with applicable regulations.

This was also conveyed by Afif regarding the statement of the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menkopolhukam) Mahfud MD. Mahfud previously said that fraud had indeed occurred in the last five elections.

"Because we have held five elections, the 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019 elections continue to cheat. But different brothers, who cheat now are election participants themselves, not the government," he said.

Mahfud emphasized that this is much different from when the New Order came to power, which has become a common secret that elections have often been regulated who the winner will be and what party will get how many votes.

"In the past, the New Order era could not be denied, the government cheated on the people. Anyway, the winner must be Golkar, the election tomorrow that Golkar gets that much, PPP, PDI so much, has been regulated. That's not fake news, yes," he said.

Meanwhile, in the last five elections, he continued, fraud occurred between the people and the people and was carried out by election participants.