Secretary Of Camat Clarified By Bawaslu Regarding Record Of Requesting Honorary Candidates To Support Candidates In Makassar Pilkada

ILLUSTRATION / Bawaslu Makassar (DOK. ANTARA)

MAKASSAR - The Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of Makassar City, South Sulawesi, clarified that the Secretary of the Ujung Tanah Sub-district Head Andi Syaiful. Andi Syaiful was asked for information regarding the sound recording allegedly asking the honorary to support one of the candidate pairs in the Makassar Pilkada.

"Sekcam Ujung Tanah is still in progress, we are still looking into it," Sri Wahyuni, Coordinator of the Action and Handling of Abuses at Bawaslu Makassar, told VOI, Wednesday, November 11.

Wahyuni said that Bawaslu had invited a number of witnesses to clarify the 10-minute, 22-second video recording. However, Bawaslu has not yet revealed the results of the clarification which were conveyed by the witnesses.

"We have invited a lot, if the case was yesterday, there were already more or less 10," he continued.

Previously the recording went viral via the WhatsApp group, Wednesday, November 4. The voice was allegedly the Secretary of the Ujung Tanah District.

In the voice recording, he asked the honorary staff, the sub-district Voting Committee Group (KKPS), the Polling Station (TPS) officer and the Ujung Tanah District Supervisory Committee (Panwas) to support one of the candidate pairs in the Makassar Pilkada.

Not only that, this person suspected of being ASN admitted that he did this by claiming direct orders from the head of the sub-district, the mayor to the governor of South Sulawesi.

It is suspected that the ASN threatened to fire and impose sanctions on honorary staff who did not carry out the sub-district ultimatum, namely supporting certain candidates in the Makassar Pilkada.