KPU Officially Bans Music Concerts In The 2020 Pilkada Campaign

Illustrated (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The General Election Commission (KPU) officially prohibits candidate pairs from carrying out campaigns with the type of music concerts, as well as campaign activities that gather other masses in the 2020 Pilkada.

This is stated in KPU Regulation Number 13 of 2020 which was signed by the Chairman of the Indonesian KPU, Arief Budiman, on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.

This PKPU is an amendment to a number of articles from PKPU Number 6 of 2020 concerning the Implementation of the Election of Governors, Deputy Governors, Regents, Deputy Regents, Mayors, and Deputy Mayors Simultaneously Continuing in Non-Natural COVID-19 Disaster Conditions.

Previously, music concerts were included in Article 63 PKPU Number 6 of 2020, as another activity that did not violate the campaign and provisions of laws and regulations. Later, Article 63 was amended.

"Other activities that do not violate the campaign ban and the provisions of laws and regulations as referred to in Article 57 letter g are carried out in the form of campaigns through social media and online media," wrote the regulation in PKPU Number 13 of 2020.

Then, KPU Commissioner Ilham Saputra said there was an affirmation of the ban on music concert campaigns and the like in addition to Article 88C PKPU Number 13 of 2020.

"Political parties, coalitions of political parties, candidate pairs, campaign teams are prohibited from carrying out campaigns for rallies, performing arts, harvesting, music concerts, leisure walks, casual bicycles, competitions, bazaars, blood donations, and political party birthdays. "explained Ilham.

Then, if the 2020 Pilkada participants persistently hold these campaign activities, they will receive a warning from the Election Supervisory Agency.

In addition, there are other sanctions in the form of terminating and forcibly dissolving the campaign at the place where the violation occurred if it does not immediately disband within one hour of being warned.

For information, recently, many parties have questioned the KPU in allowing campaign activities that gather mass such as music concerts.

It is feared that all parties present in the campaign cannot implement health protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as maintaining distance. Finally, the KPU revised the regulation.