Bawaslu Encourages Bekasi ASN Irarikan Patka Integrity Netrality In The 2024 General Election

Chairman of the General Election Supervisory Agency of Bekasi Regency, Syaiful Bachri. (photo: dock. inter)

The General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of Bekasi Regency, West Java encourages all State Civil Apparatus (ASN) in the area to familiarize the integrity pact related to political neutrality during the implementation of the 2024 General Election stage. Head of Bawaslu Bekasi Regency, Syaiful Bachridi Bekasi, Saturday, said pledges of integrity pact need to be made to maintain the independence of the ASN, especially recently there were cases of alleged violations of the code of ethics that dragged an echelon two Bekasi Regency official while attending the agenda of a political party. "We have already held an audience with the Acting Bekasi Regent Pak Dani Ramdan and KPU to discuss the alleged violation. We encourage the local government to commit to safeguarding the independence of the ASN," he said. He said that Bawaslu's input received a positive response from the local government by planning the pledge of integrity pact activities by all ASB within the Bekasi Regency Government. "According to our latest coordination results, it is likely that the pledge of the pledge of the Bekasi Regency Government ASN integrity pact will be carried out at the beginning of next week," he said. All ASN both on duty inside and outside the Bekasi Regency Government office environment such as sub-districts and sub-districts will be collected to familiarize the apparatus integrity pact as well as to remind that ASN is neutral. According to him an ASN is basically a civil duty to serve the community so that it is required to maintain neutrality and not side with one person or a particular group.

The provisions listed in the law, he said, apply to those with civil servant status or P3K. Even so, ASN is still given the political right to vote during elections. "When they are outside the voting booth, they must of course serve, they must not be picky," he said. Syaiful also confirmed that he had made summons and confirmed the alleged violation of neutrality by an echelon two official Bekasi Regency Government. "We have reviewed the alleged violation and decided that it has not been included in the realm of electoralism. First, regarding election participants, there is no process yet because the process is still factual verification. At that time it was not yet within the campaign period," he said.