Civil Society Coalition Asks KPU To Make Sure The KPU Recruitment Process Is Transparent

Illustration of the mural of the KPU logo. (Between)

JAKARTA - The Civil Society Coalition at the START of the Clean Election urges the General Election Commission (KPU) to ensure transparency, accountability, and objectivity in the recruitment of members of the regional KPU (KPUD), both at the provincial and district and city levels.

"The Civil Society Coalition at the Guard of the Clean Election urges the Indonesian KPU to ensure transparency, accountability, and objectivity of the recruitment of regional election organizers," said the representative of the Coalition, Kurnia Ramadhana, in a media discussion "Investigation, Investigation, and Rejecting Election Organizers who Are Involved in Subcursion", as monitored through the YouTube channel Friends of ICW in Jakarta, Monday, January 30, confiscated by Antara.

The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher conveyed that the pressure arose because there were allegations of lure of positions from the KP to members of the regional KPU who were willing to commit fraud in the form of data manipulation in the stages of factual verification of political parties candidates participating in the 2024 simultaneous elections.

Thus, when the KPU recruited election organizers in 20 provinces, including four new autonomous regions of the DOB in Papua and 118 regencies and cities, the Coalition urged guarantees of transparency, accountability, and the objectivity of the recruitment of members of the regional KPU.

In addition, they also urged the Indonesian KPU not to pass election organizers suspected of cheating in the verification of political parties participating in the 2024 General Election.

"Simply put, don't let regional election organizers involved in election crimes be elected by the Indonesian KPU," said Kurnia.

The Civil Society Coalition at the Guard of the Clean Election consists of a number of civil society groups and law firms. Apart from ICW, the Coalition was attended by the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), Network for Democracy and Electoral Integrity (Netgrit).

Furthermore, the Center for Legal and Policy Studies (PSHK), Constitutional and Administrative Law Society (CALS), Non-governmental Communications and Organization Forum, Andalas University Constitutional Study Center, Indonesian Themis Firm, Amar Law Firm, and Legislative Monitoring Committee.

Previously, the Coalition received allegations of instructions from the central KPU to the regional KPU to change the data on the results of factual verification of political parties participating in the 2024 General Election. Thus, certain political parties were declared to have passed as participants in the 2024 General Election.

On this suspicion, KPU chairman Hasyim Asy'ari emphasized that his party did not instruct the regional KPU to pass certain political parties as participants in the 2024 General Election in the factual verification stage.

"Nothing (instructions from the central KPU). I have checked the recordings at the event on November 22, 2022," said Hasyim in Jakarta, Friday, January 13.