Secretary General Of KIPP: Bawaslu And KPU Must Be Independent Of Intervention

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Independent Election Monitoring Committee (KIPP) Kaka Suminta hopes that the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) and the General Election Commission (KPU) will be completely independent of various political interventions in carrying out their duties as organizers of the 2024 General Election.

"The election organizers should have prepared themselves to deal with such intervention, whatever their strength," said Kaka at a discussion entitled "To Guard the Elections" in Jakarta as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, December 30.

Kaka assessed that election organizers such as the KPU and Bawaslu have not tried their best to maintain their independence from various power interventions, especially those that are political in nature.

According to him, this can be seen from the various attitudes, behavior, decisions, to statements of the two institutions which led to the weakening of their positions and the holding of elections.

According to Kaka, the less perfect regulations will not become a protracted polemic if the independence of the two electoral institutions is strong against various interventions.