TKN Prabowo-Gibran Calls The Contents Of The Film Dirty Vote Fitnah, TPN Ganjar-Mahfud: Don't Be Baperan

Deputy for Law for the National Winning Team (TPN) Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, Todung Mulya Lubis (DOK Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Deputy for Law for the National Winning Team (TPN) Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, Todung Mulya Lubis responded to the release of the film Dirty Vote which was considered a Prabowo-Gibran winning team containing slander. According to Todung, if TPN Prabowo-Gibran does not accept the content of the film, which was launched 3 days before the 2024 election, it should be answered with other criticisms. If necessary, the Prabowo-Gibran camp will make another film as a rebuttal. "What I don't want is not Baperan. Many people are bored when criticized. Well, this performance is dangerous, if you feel you don't agree with what was made in the film, just deny that the film made another film. Criticism must be responded to with one other criticism," said Todung at the Media Center TPN Ganjar-Mahfud, Menteng, Central Jakarta, Sunday, February 11. Todung also reminded parties who disagree with the narrative in the film not to immediately report the filmmakers to the police. "Don't be careless and don't make a report quickly to the police, because in my opinion criminalization like this will kill creativity. Criminalization like this will kill democracy itself," said Todung. Moreover, according to Todung, the film Dirty Vote can be considered as consideration or public political education to make its choice in the 2024 General Election. "This film is a good political education. Political education for the community, for all of us to have a political literacy in understanding the dynamics of politics in Indonesia," he explained. Dirty Vote is an explanatory documentary that reveals alleged election fraud described by three constitutional law experts, namely Bivitri Susanti, Zainal Arifin Mochtar, and Feri Amsari. These three legal experts explain the practice of nepotism using power instruments with the aim of winning the 2024 election by the rulers. The cases of nepotism that Bivitri, Zainal Arifin, and Feri responded to were revealed through photo documents, videos, and news pieces. The forms of fraud are unraveled by constitutional law analysis. According to Bivitri, the film Dirty Vote is a historical recording of the destruction of the country's democracy at a time, where power is abused so openly by people who are chosen through democracy itself. “ Tells about two things. First, about democracy which cannot be interpreted as limited to the implementation of elections, but how elections take place. Not only the vote count, but whether the entire election process is carried out fairly and according to constitutional values. Second, about power that is misused due to nepotism that is illegal in a democratic state of law, ” explained Bivitri in her statement. Meanwhile, TKN Prabowo-Gibran suspects that the documentary Dirty Vote, which was launched on the YouTube platform, aims to reduce the 2024 General Election. Deputy Chairperson of TKN Prabowo-Gibran Habiburokhman asked the public not to be provoked by the narratives in the film, because he believes most of its contents are limited to assumptions.

"Most of what the film says is something slanderous, a very assumptive, and highly scientific hate narrative." I question the capacity of the characters in the film and I feel like there is a tendency, a desire to degrade this election with a very baseless narration, "” Habiburokhman said while reading TKN's stance on the documentary Dirty Vote during a press conference in Jakarta.