DPRD Asked To Absorb Online Aspirations During The Cawagub Fit And Proper Test

Political discussion in the Menteng area (diah Ayu Wardani / VOI)

JAKARTA - Political observer from the State University of Jakarta, Ubedilah Badrun, thinks that the DPRD needs to accommodate the aspirations of the community in the fit and proper test of the candidates for Deputy Governor of DKI.

Ubedilah understands that later the fit and proper test will be held in the form of an open question and answer discussion. However, he considered that not necessarily all the questions raised by DPRD members represented constituents in each electoral district (dapil).

"The DPRD ignores the public interest of Jakarta with direct elections by the DPRD. Therefore, the public needs to be involved in this election, the public is involved by means of public testing," said Ubedillah during a discussion in the Menteng area, Central Jakarta, Saturday, February 22.

The public test, said Ubedilah, could be carried out by the DPRD by accommodating people's aspirations online. Then, during the fit and proper test, the aspirations can be read directly and ask for responses from the two candidates.

"The DPRD only has to make online aspirations and then can provide the evidence to the DPRD. For example, if A has a problem, integrity is a political interpretation because the Deputy Governor is elected by the people," he said.

For information, the Rules (Tatib) regarding the election of the Deputy Governor of DKI have been ratified by the DKI DPRD. This rule will be used by the voting committee (panlih) as a reference for the election mechanism.

In the near future, the DPRD will form a committee, consisting of a chairperson and members structure. This committee comes from the respective representatives of all factions in the DPRD. There were exceptions which were agreed upon verbally by all DPRD members. Three factions, namely Gerindra, PKS, and PDIP may not be chairperson of the committee.

"The chairperson of the committee is not from Gerindra, PKS and PDIP. So, the position of chairperson of the committee is handed over to 6 other factions," said DPRD Chairman Prasetio Edi Marsudi.

The reason for the ban, said Prasetio, was to avoid suspicion of political games. Given, Gerindra and PKS are the parties that bear the two candidates, namely Ahmad Riza Patria and Nurmansjah Lubis.

Meanwhile, the reason for the ban on the chairperson of the PDIP committee was to avoid a conflict of interest from Prasetio, who is from the PDIP faction. Given, Prasetio holds the highest position in the DKI parliament.

In addition to the selection of the nomination documents, the election committee will arrange a fit and proper test mechanism. In the fit and proper test, the DPRD did not present experts.

Later, a fit and proper test will be formed openly in a plenary session. First, the two candidates were asked to convey their vision and mission in helping DKI Governor Anies Baswedan to lead Jakarta.

After that, it was followed by a question and answer discussion between DPRD members and the cawagub. The test is carried out in a plenary meeting.

Until finally, each faction gathered to vote (voting) in private. Then, the results of the votes were read out again in the plenary meeting until one name was elected as Deputy Governor of DKI.

There are conditions on which the selection process should be held. The election plenary meeting will be held if the number of members of the DKI DPRD who are present meets the quorum requirements, namely 1/2 of the total members of the DPRD. The elected Cawagub must get 50 percent + 1 of the number of DPR members present.