Viral Palu Arit Emblem Included In Voice Paper, This Is Semarang City KPU's Explanation

PPS officers from Pandansari Village, Semarang City, showed the finding of an election ballot attached by a piece of paper with an arithmetic hammer, Wednesday (14/2/2024). (ANTARA)

Viral on social media officers from the Voting Organizing Group (KPPS) Polling Station 003 Pandansari, Semarang City who found a paper bearing the symbol of an arithmetic hammer or the symbol of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) tucked into a ballot letter, which was found during the process of vote counting. The chairman of the Semarang City KPU, Henry Casandra Gultom, confirmed that the logo contained in the ballot did not come from the logistics distribution of the 2024 KPU Election Semarang City KPU. According to him, the paper came from an irresponsible person and did not come from the KPU. "Not from us. If we focus on the calculation of votes and valid and invalid ballots, and it is not from the KPU Semarang City. This is not our territory," he explained, Thursday, February 15. The party's finding was prohibited in the ballot is not the area of the Semarang City KPU. For this reason, Nanda focused on the election stage which is currently in the recapitulation process at the sub-district level. Meanwhile, the Chairperson of the Pandansari Voting Organizer (PPS), Dedi Taruna, confirmed the incident. The logo was only known during the vote counting.

"So this (PKI) was printed and its position was stapled into one and the presidential candidate's ballot, then it was cast. So we considered it invalid. So we know when we count the presidential candidate's voice again. Residents were also angry," he explained. Dedi said at TPS 3 Pandansari there were 237 people who exercised their voting rights in the 2024 election. The findings have also been reported by TPS officers to the police for further legal steps.