Mahfud MD Emphasizes The Importance Of Political Education To Prevent Money Politics

Coordinating Minister For Political, Legal And Security Affairs Mahfud MD/DOK Kemenko Polhukam

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, Security Affairs Mahfud MD emphasized the importance of political education for voters in order to prevent money politics during the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

Mahfud explained that political education and community participation that actively oversees the stages of elections can also help supervisory agencies such as the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) and law enforcement officials (APH).

"This community participation will facilitate Bawaslu and APH's duties because it is one of the important factors in overcoming the practice of money politics," said Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD when giving a speech at the Coordination Forum for the Integrated Law Enforcement Center (Gakkumdu) in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, June 20.

Mahfud assessed that the active participation of the community strengthened by political education can keep elections of quality and integrity.

He conveyed that the government always appeals to law enforcement officials to prevent and take action against election crimes.

"This is one of the first steps so that all stakeholders (employers) immediately mitigate the occurrence of election crimes in vulnerable areas, for example urging the public not to vote because of certain rewards, because (it) includes money politics (money politics) which are threatened with crime," said Mahfud MD.

Therefore, various steps to prevent violations are much better to put forward than waiting for the crime to occur.

Mahfud reminded law enforcers that there may be strong political interests ahead of the 2024 General Election which is feared to affect the work of law enforcers such as the police and the prosecutor's office.

Ahead of the 2024 General Election, the law enforcement that will be carried out by APH will not be separated from the political attraction. The public's concern about political interference in law enforcement, especially when entering the election season, must be used as an alarm to continue to work professionally based on the evidence that can be accounted for," said the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.