West Sumatra Cagub Mulyadi Becomes A Suspect In The 2020 Pilkada

Illustrated KPU (VOI)

JAKARTA - Bareskrim Polri has named the West Sumatra Governor Candidate (Cagub) Mulyadi as a suspect for violating the general election (Election) by campaigning outside of schedule. With the suspect named, Muyadi died from the candidacy.

"Yes, it is true that after the title of the case yesterday, the candidate for Governor of West Sumatra on behalf of M was named a suspect," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Awi Setiyono to reporters, Saturday, December 5.

Awi said that Mulyadi was officially named a suspect on Friday, December 4. The suspect was also named after examining Mulyadi twice.

Currently, investigators have scheduled Mulyadi's examination as a suspect. The examination is planned to take place next week.

"Plans are called for examination at Bareskrim on Monday, December 7, 2020," he said

In this case, Mulyadi was suspected of being related to the crime of election, namely campaigning outside the schedule in accordance with Article 187 paragraph (1) of Law number 6 of 2020. Thus, Mulyadi was threatened with imprisonment of at least 15 days for a maximum of 3 months or a fine of at least IDR 100,000. and a maximum of IDR 1 million.

For your information, this case started when Mulyadi became a guest speaker at an event on one of the national television stations, on November 12. At that time, Mulyadi mentioned the sentences containing the campaign.

In fact, at that time it had not yet entered the campaign mass. So, it was also reported by another candidate, Yogi Ramon Setiawan. The report was submitted to Bawaslu on 17 November.

Then the report was followed up by the Police after the Gakkumdu Center agreed that election violations had occurred.