7 KPU Commissioners Reported To DKPP After Alleged Ethical Violations

JAKARTA - A total of 7 commissioners of the General Elections Commission (KPU) were reported by the Indonesian Democratic Defenders Team (TPDI) 2.0 to the Election Organizers Honorary Council (DKPP) regarding alleged ethical violations.

TPDI 2.0 Coordinator, Patra M Zen said that his party requested that DKPP impose strict sanctions in the form of dismissal of all KPU commissioners.

According to TPDI 2.0, the KPU as the organizer of the election is considered to have ignored the interests of the state and accommodated the will of individuals. The reporter assessed that if Hasyim Asy'ari and the commissioners were still leading the 2024 election, democratic justice would be threatened. This, he continued, reflected on Gibran's acceptance as Prabowo's companion.

"Because we think that if it is still the commissioner who organizes the election, the state, a just democracy will be threatened," said Patra, at the DKPP office, Central Jakarta, Thursday, November 16.

TPDI 2.0 emphasized that when Gibran registered at the KPU, the organizers were still using KPU Regulation Number 19 of 2023 which stated that the requirements for presidential election participants were still at least 40 years old. Meanwhile, the KPU has just changed its rules on November 3, 2023.

Patra stated that if this privilege was applied specifically to Gibran, it means that the KPU could allegedly violate its oath because it prioritizes personal interests, groups, above the interests of the Republic of Indonesia.

"We ask that the KPU commissioners be dismissed in a fixed manner," he said.

This change was in response to the decision of the Constitutional Court to read out Decision No. PUU/XXI/2023 on October 16, 2022. The Constitutional Court changed the nomination requirements, at least 40 years old or once/in the position elected through the election, including the election of Regional Heads.

In the report, Patra and his colleagues also submitted a number of pieces of evidence. Among them, PKPU Number 19 of 2023 concerning the Nomination of Participants in the Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections. PKPU Number 23 of 2003 concerning amendments to PKPU 19 of 2023.

Finally, KPU Decree Number 1632 of 2023 concerning the Determination of Gibran as a Vice President Candidate.

"Of course we will submit witnesses. This witness can also be all citizens who witnessed (Gibran's receipt) on television how the violation of this oath was carried out naked, clear and real," he said.

Not only to DKPP, but TPDI 2.0 will also sue the KPU to the State Administrative Court (PTUN) next week. This lawsuit is to strengthen all legal remedies made by his party.

"Next week I will sue in the Administrative Court between Monday and Tuesday," he said.

TPDI 2.0 previously sued Gibran Rakabuming Raka's candidacy as a Vice Presidential Candidate paired with presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 election contestation.