Bawaslu Will Summon Acting Mayor Of Bengkulu Asking For Clarification Regarding Civil Servant Netrality

Bengkulu City PPPS Kordiv Ahmad Maskuri. BETWEEN/Anggi Mayasari

BENGKULU - The General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) will summon the Acting (Pj) Mayor of Bengkulu Arif Gunadi for clarification regarding reports of alleged violations of the neutrality of state civil servants (ASN) in the region. The summons was made after his party and members of the Integrated Law Enforcement (Gakumdu) consisting of the prosecutor's office and the police agreed. "Later, based on this information, we will see. It is possible that the summons to the person concerned as the party reported is related to the alleged neutrality of the ASN," said Bengkulu City Bawaslu Coordinator of the Division for Handling, Utilization and Violation of Disputes (Kordiv PPPS) Ahmad Maskuri in Bengkulu, Antara, Friday, January 26. All attitudes taken must go through a plenary meeting of the leadership to determine the steps taken by the Bengkulu City Bawaslu. In addition, he said, the Bengkulu City Bawaslu had examined six people who were reported and witnesses. Based on the results of the clarification or temporary examination that has been carried out, there are those who keep the number in the name of the Acting Mayor and some do not keep it, but in the number there is a name from Arif Gunadi. Meanwhile, there were two campaign rules that were violated by the Acting Mayor of Bengkulu Arif Gunadi during the campaign period such as ASN and there were allegations of general election crimes (Pemilu) 2024. "The report has entered the Bengkulu City Bawaslu and a study has been carried out and we have decided to follow up. Next we will coordinate with the Bengkulu Province Bawaslu because the violation process must coordinate to carry out the next process," said Ahmad. Based on the results of the legal study that has been carried out, he said, his party agreed that the alleged violation committed by the Bengkulu Acting Mayor would be followed up and coordinated with the Bengkulu Province Bawaslu.

Previously, the Acting Mayor of Bengkulu was suspected of distributing photos or pictures of candidates for members of the Bengkulu Province House of Representatives (DPRD) who were his own wives to a chat group consisting of 852 contacts and accompanied by a picture of a candidate's ballot from one of the political parties.