KPU Chairman Violates Code Of Ethics Receiving Candidate Candidates, Gibran: We'll Follow Up Later

Candidate for vice president serial number 2 Gibran Rakabuming Raka while attending a meeting with volunteers at the Kartika Chandra hotel, South Jakarta, Monday (5/2/2024). ANTARA/Walda Marison

JAKARTA - Candidate for vice president number 2 Gibran Rakabuming Raka said his party would follow up on the decision of the Honorary Council of Election Organizers (DKPP) regarding the decision stating that all commissioners of the General Elections Commission (KPU) were guilty.

"Yes, we will follow up later," said Gibran briefly when met after the meeting with volunteers at the Kartika Chandra hotel, Jakarta, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, February 5.

Gibran also did not want to comment further on the decision. He immediately broke through the crowd of journalists and immediately got into the car leaving the hotel.

Previously, the KPPP Honorary Council sentenced the Chairman of the Indonesian KPU Hasyim Asy'ari and six other members to violate the code of ethics in accepting the registration of Gibran Rakabuming Raka as a candidate for vice president of the 2024 General Election.

Chairman of the DKPP Heddy Lugito said Hasyim Asy'ari was sanctioned in the form of the last stern warning. Apart from Hasyim, other members of the Indonesian KPU, namely Yulianto Sudrajat, August Mellaz, Betty Epsilon Idroos, Parsadaan Harahap, Idham Holik, and M Afifuddin, were also given warning sanctions.

Hasyim and six other members of the KPU were reported by Demas Brian Wicaksono with case Number 135-PKE-DKPP/XII/2023, Iman Munandar B. (Number 136-PKE-DKPP/XII/2023), PH Hariyanto (Number 137-PKE-DKPP/XII/2023), and Rumon