Bekasi ASN News That Supports One Of The Presidential Candidates Will Be Traced By The West Java Provincial Government

The daily executive (Plh) of the Regional Secretary (Sekda) of West Java Province Mohammad Taufiq Budi Santoso gave a statement at the West Java (Beja) Bewara event at Gedung Sate Bandung, Tuesday (9/1/2024). (ANTARA/Ricky Prayoga)

BANDUNG - Daily Executive (Plh) of the Regional Secretary (Sekda) of West Java Province Mohammad Taufiq Budi Santoso said he would examine further the alleged violation of the neutrality of the Bekasi State Civil Apparatus (ASN) in the implementation of the 2024 General Election stage. The alleged neutrality of a number of ASN in Bekasi City refers to a video showing support for one of the presidential election pairs in the 2024 General Election. Taufiq emphasized that this should not have happened. "Regarding the alleged neutrality, I will check further," said Taufiq in Bandung, as reported by Antara, Tuesday, January 9. Therefore, Taufiq again reminded ASN to be able to maintain neutrality throughout the 2024 election stages, especially since there have been regulations governing the neutrality of ASN, TNI and Polri in the 2024 election contestation, in order to make the five-year democratic party run peacefully and conducive. "The point is that we continue to maintain, the Governor (Bey Machmudin) also continues to remind us ASN, especially, must maintain neutrality and there are already provisions for joint regulations for kpu and Bawaslu that we must obey," he said. Taufiq also reminded that the West Java Provincial Government had previously distributed circulars to district/city governments in order to maintain neutrality in order to maintain the dignity of the 2024 General Election. "The governor has also sent a circular to all parties, especially the provincial government and district/city governments to really maintain the neutrality of ASN," he said. With this, he asked and hoped that the incident of alleged violations of ASN neutrality would no longer be repeated in the future, as a shared spirit in ensuring that the 2024 General Election would take place honestly and fairly. "So please obey all ASN, it is in all corners of the province and district/city," he said.

As for the sanctions on ASN personnel suspected of violating neutrality, Taufiq Budi admitted that his party would leave it entirely to Bawaslu, to be followed up. "Later, it will go to Bawaslu. We will hand over the mechanism to Bawaslu," he said.