Minister Of Home Affairs: Be Careful In Discussing Pilkada Cases At The DPR Commission II Panja

Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian reminded the public to be careful discussing case by case at the 2020 Simultaneous Regional Head Elections (Pilkada) in the Working Committee (Panja) for the Evaluation of Pilkada Implementation which was formed by Commission II of the DPR.

"Regarding panja, in principle, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, there is no problem. But maybe what needs to be anticipated and what needs to be careful if there is a panja, about the case of regional elections, case by case. Later there will be a power struggle. party interests, "said Tito as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, January 19.

The Minister of Home Affairs assessed that the struggle could occur because of the efforts of certain political parties to support the pair of candidates for regional head that were promoted by each.

"Because there are those who support this, there are those who support it. Those who support this have been eliminated by the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), those who are not. So, maybe there is power struggle there," said Tito.

He said, because Commission II of the DPR RI was ready to anticipate the potential for this power struggle, the Ministry of Home Affairs had no problem holding an open panja meeting.

"If you are ready for this power struggle, that's okay. We'll just be open," said Tito.

Previously, Commission II of the DPR agreed to form a Working Committee for Evaluation of the Implementation of Simultaneous Regional Head Elections 2020 at a work meeting that took place in Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday.

Chairman of Commission II of the DPR, Ahmad Doli Kurnia, said that the committee was formed to follow up on the implementation of the 2020 Pilkada which is considered to still need evaluation, due to a number of problems.

"Among other things, there are still election violations and disputes, there are still indications of money politics, problems are still found in the final voter list, violations of the neutrality of the state civil apparatus, TNI / Polri, and weak communication and coordination between election organizers," said Doli, while chairing a work meeting which was attended by the Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian, Acting Chairman of the Indonesian General Elections Commission (KPU) Ilham Saputra, Chairman of Bawaslu RI Abhan, and Chairman of the Honorary Council of Election Organizers (DKPP) Muhammad.