Highlighting DKPP Decision, MPR Leader: People Don't Want Leaders Whose Ethics Is Problematic

Deputy Chairman of the MPR Hidayat Nur Wahid (central) and former Minister of Religion Lukman Hakim Saifuddin (right) at a press conference in Jakarta, Friday (20/10/2023). (ANTARA/Sean Muhamad)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly, Hidayat Nur Wahid, responded to the decision of the Honorary Council of Election Organizers (DKPP) which stated that the Chairman of the General Election Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy'ari and several of his members violated the Election Organizer Code of Ethics (KEPP). The decision is related to the receipt of Gibran Rakabuming Raka's registration as a vice presidential candidate accompanying Prabowo Subianto. Hidayat highlighted that before the DKPP, the Honorary Council of the Constitutional Court (MKMK) also stated that there were ethical violations related to the vice presidential candidate number 2. According to him, this issue is important because in a few days the Indonesian people will elect a candidate for leader. "Of course the people don't want the leadership they choose to be people who are ethically in a position to be questioned," Hidayat said at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, February 6. The senior PKS politician hopes that problems that intersect with ethics will not happen again in the future. Therefore, he considered, the Indonesian people must exercise their voting rights wisely. "It should not be sustainable, it should stop, it should not become a trend that will later open up the possibility of other ethical violations," said HNW.

"That is certainly not something that is very desirable when we are in the reform era. Where in this reform era there is still TAP MPR Number 6 of 2001 which emphasizes the importance of the ethics of life of the nation and state," he concluded.