KPU Regulates That The Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidate Zones Are Not In The Same Region As Each General Meeting Campaign

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The General Election Commission (KPU) held a coordination meeting with the pair of presidential and vice presidential candidates and political parties participating in the 2024 General Election to divide the zoning for the implementation of the general meeting campaign which will take place from January 21 to February 10.

KPU commissioner August Mellaz explained that this coordination was carried out to prevent the implementation of open campaigns for presidential and vice-presidential candidates from being in the same area and at the same time as other presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

Mellaz explained that the KPU divides into three zonings every day of the general meeting campaign, according to the number of presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

"So the campaign zone for the candidate pair is divided into three zones, zones A, B, and C. Later, the zone A of the candidate pair will be determined which money, which candidate zone B is, which candidate zone is C," said Mellaz at the KPU RI Office, Jalan Imam Bonjol, Central Jakarta, Sunday, January 14.

For the campaign for the political party general meeting, the KPU said that the zoning division of each political party participated in the campaign area for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates that were carried or supported by each political party.

However, in today's meeting, there are still two political parties that have not expressed their support for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, namely the Labor Party and the National Awakening Party (PKN).

"The Labor Party and PKN parties will be drawn up in their own campaign zones for the implementation of the general meeting campaign," explained Mellaz.

It is known that the KPU has set a campaign schedule for the 2024 General Election to take place from January 21 to February 10, 2024. This schedule also applies to advertising campaigns in the mass media.

This is stated in KPU Regulation Number 15 of 2023 concerning the 2024 General Election campaign. In Article 46, it is stated that the venue for the general meeting campaign includes fields, stadiums, squares, or other open places.

The KPU regulates that the general meeting campaign can start at 09.00 and ends no later than 18.00 local time with respect to the day and time of worship in the local area.

Meanwhile, the overall campaign schedule runs from 28 November 2023 to 10 February 2024. Since 28 November, campaigns may be carried out in a limited meeting, face-to-face meetings, distribution of campaign materials, installation of campaign props, debate of presidential and vice-presidential candidates, and campaigns on social media.