To Be Safe And Conducive, The Palembang Polrestabes Asks For Political Parties Whose 2024 Election Campaign Prepares Internal Security

Head of Palembang Polrestabes Kombes Pol Mokhamad Ngajib. ANTARA

Palembang City Police, South Sumatra, requires political parties to prepare an internal security team when carrying out a campaign ahead of the 2024 General Election (Pemilu) in the local city. Palembang Police Chief Kombes Mokhamad Ngajib said the internal security team must prepare a political party or event organizer. The internal security team on duty includes collecting data or revaliding each crowd who directly participates in the campaign. "The goal is to control the number of people so that the entire series on the political campaign agenda can be safer and more conducive," he explained Palembang, Antara, Wednesday, January 4. He explained that later not all political party sympathizers in Palembang, which were large enough to penetrate the number of thousands of people, could participate in the campaign. Based on information from the General Elections Commission (KPU), the political campaign period is scheduled to take place on November 28, 2023 - February 10, 2024. This is because the police have set a maximum limit for political campaign masses, namely only 3,000 people or at least 1 square meter carrying 2-3 people. The maximum limit is regulated in standard operating regulations for procedures for organizing mass activities in public spaces issued by the Head of South Sumatra Police Inspector General Albertus R Wibowo. "This needs to be conveyed and understood by all parties, this rule aims to optimize efforts to mitigate potential disturbances in security and social order or things that are not desirable (such as riots, ed), or at the same time preventing unauthorized individuals from entering the campaign agenda," he added. On the other hand, he said, specifically his party needed good cooperation with all parties to create success in every stage of the 2024 general election. Because referring to police records throughout 2022 in Palembang, there is an escalation of cases of disturbances in security and public order of 60 percent compared to the previous year, including demonstrations that led to clashes. Nevertheless, he ensured, police personnel were in a state of readiness to keep the entire series of elections in 2024 successfully avoiding the conflict. "Personnel have been prepared, trained both physically and technically in the field to secure the democratic party simultaneously later, for that we ask for maximum cooperation," he said.