Affirms Change Of Acting Regional Head Not Neutral 2024 Election, Minister Of Home Affairs: Regent Of Kampar One Of Them

Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Muhammad Tito Karnavian. (doc. Ministry of Home Affairs)

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian emphasized that he had replaced several non-neutral regional heads (pj) ahead of the 2024 General Election.

According to him, the replacement was carried out because based on the results of the evaluation and deepening of information that several acting regional heads were proven to have violated the principle of neutrality.

"Reports about non-neutral reports that go viral in videos of all kinds do exist, that's why I made a replacement," said Tito Karnavian, a discussion entitled "What's Up with the Special Region of Jakarta?" which was held at the Media Center Indonesia Maju, in Jakarta, Tuesday, December 19, was confiscated by Antara.

He said the indications of the non-neutral regional head were obtained from public reports, including complaints from political parties and from election participants.

From the reports and complaints, the Ministry of Home Affairs then conducted an evaluation and took firm steps by removing the Acting Regional Head.

Tito also mentioned that one of the acting regional heads who received an evaluation was then replaced, namely the Regent of Kampar, Riau Province, Muhammad Firdaus.

"The Regent of Kampar is one of them. One of the reasons is that it is (not neutral)," said Tito.

Previously, as many as 59 regional heads (pj) received red report cards in the indicator of maintaining the neutrality of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) in the 2024 General Election based on the recapitulation of evaluation assessments conducted by the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) in Jakarta, Tuesday.

The red report was given to the Acting Regional Heads who were deemed not to have met the indicators in their efforts to maintain the neutrality of ASN, by only collecting a score of 0-59 or being in the category of less.

In the recapitulation of the assessment, there were also five Acting Regional Heads who won yellow report cards with a score of 60-79. Meanwhile, 48 other Regional Heads received green report cards by scoring 80 to 100 or good categories.