Potential Campaign, Jember Bawaslu Asks For National Prayers To Be Attended By Gibran Postponed

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka when meeting volunteers in West Java (ANTARA)

JEMBER - The Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of Jember Regency appealed to the National Hero's Apple event which will be attended by vice presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka in Jember Regency, East Java, because it has the potential to become a campaign event in the activity. The Sholawat Nusantara (LSN) organization held the National Salawat Apple with a total of 50,000-70,000 participants attended by the President Muhammad Fawait who is also a candidate for the East Java DPRD and vice presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka in Jember Sport Garden, Wednesday, January 10. "That there is no possibility that campaign elements will occur in the implementation of the ceremony," said Bawaslu Jember Member Wiwin Riza Kurnia in a written statement quoted by ANTARA. Based on the provisions of Article 27 paragraph (1) and (2) KPU Regulation No. 15 of 2023 concerning the General Election Campaign, it was stated that political parties that had been designated as election participants were prohibited from conducting campaigns before the start of the election campaign period with the general meeting method on January 21, 2024. "That no one could guarantee that at these activities there were no campaign elements considering that the participants present reached tens of thousands of people, so that this was the consideration of Bawaslu to urge for the activity to be postponed," he said. He explained the election campaign with limited meeting activities, face-to-face, distribution of campaign materials, the installation of campaign props in public places, the debate of the presidential and social media began on November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024. Then for the general meeting campaign, the advertisements of print mass media, electronic mass media and media in the network (online) began on January 21 to February 10, 2024. "We have appealed to the LSN and the organizing committee to postpone the implementation of the national shalawat meeting activities until the start of the campaign execution with the general meeting method on January 21, 2024," he said.

However, if the activity continues, he continued, the Jember Regency Bawaslu has instructed all Panwascam in Jember Regency to carry out surveillance.