This DPD Member Asks For Simultaneous Election Implementation To Be Evaluated

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PURWOKERTO - Member of Committee I DPD RI Abdul Kholik hopes that the simultaneous general election (election) will be evaluated by separating the legislative elections and presidential-vice presidential elections.

When met in Purwokerto, Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Saturday afternoon, Abdul Kholik said the evaluation needed to be carried out because the 2024 Simultaneous Election again caused casualties among the polling group (kpps) officers and the community protection unit (Satlinmas) who died due to fatigue after carrying out their electoral duties.

"This afternoon (Saturday afternoon) during a working visit at the KPU Banyumas Regency, I received information that a member of the Satlinmas who died last night (16/2) after being sick due to exhaustion carried out security duties but he said," he said.

Therefore, he said, his party was concerned about the incident and hoped that it would not happen again.

He admitted that he could not imagine how tired the duties of Satlinmas members were because they secured polling stations (tps) from D-1 Pencolosan until the completion of the vote count process.

According to him, Kpps officers and Satlinmas who have been working marathon during the voting should be able to take enough rest time so that their fatigue does not increase, so they can anticipate the risks that occur.

Furthermore, the senator from Central Java said that the bitter experience of the 2019 Simultaneous Election in which many KPPS and Satlinmas officers who died gave rise to the desire of various parties so that the incident would not happen again but it turned out to happen again in the 2024 Simultaneous Elections.

He said the fatigue condition, especially experienced by Kpps officers, was because the administrative process at Tapi was very time-consuming.

In fact, a kpps chairman is said to be able to sign more than 1,000 times because apart from signing various forms, each ballot must also be signed.

In fact, in each butt there are five types of ballots and each of them is in accordance with the number of voters based on the permanent voter list (dpt) and additional lists of voters (DPTb) plus reserves.

"In the future, we must again look at the legal framework in the form of the Election Law to prevent this from happening," he said.

He admitted that he was one of the parties who were of the view that in the future elections between the legislative and presidential elections, they would be separated again. In this case, the only election that was synchronized was the legislative election, while the presidential election was held separately.

According to him, the simultaneous simultaneous presidential election at the same time as the legislative election made the election seem unbalanced because voters were more focused on the presidential election than the legislative election.

"The tension of the presidential election competition in the community is quite high because there is a debate room that can attract the public to enter the pros and cons," said Kholik.

On a separate occasion, the Secretary of the KPU Banyumas Regency, Subhan P Aji, said members of the Satlinmas who died on Friday, February 16 evening named Dartan (58), a resident of Tumiyang Village, Kebasen District, who while voting served at TPS 004 Tumiyang.

Before he died, the late Dartan was known to have attended a meeting related to post-voting activities at the local village hall on Friday night.

After returning home, Dartan looked at the cage behind his house at around 22.00 WIB because the chicken continued to sound.

However, when he looked at the cage, Dartan experienced blood vomiting, so he was immediately taken to the hospital by his family.

"Pak Dartan died on his way to the Medika Banyumas Alert Hospital and to be sure, he was taken to the Banyumas Hospital. The team of doctors also confirmed that Pak Dartan had died at 23.45 WIB," he said.

He said the chairman of the KPU Banyumas Regency, Rofambarun Khasanah, together with one of the commissioners, had visited the funeral home on Saturday, February 17 afternoon.