Sirekap Chaotic, Pusako Researcher Suspects There Is An Involvement Of Political Parties

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JAKARTA - The Center for Constitutional Studies (Pusako) of the Faculty of Law, Andalas University, suspects that the chaos that arose in the Voice Recapitulation Information System (Sirekap) was not solely the fault of the General Elections Commission (KPU), but there was involvement of election participants.

Pusako researcher Beni Kurnia Helih revealed the suspicion of election participants in the sense that those who tried to approach election organizers so that this process seemed chaotic with the mode he was doing so that votes continued to switch to other candidates.

He considered, if you look at past events, actually the issue of chaos or irregularities is the end in the implementation of the 2024 General Election. Beni gave an example, the problems that exist within the KPU, including the DKPP, which has often reprimanded through various decisions to give warnings to KPU commissioners.

"For example, with the last warning, then there will be another final warning the following month. This means that the KPU Commissioner is ethically not carrying out his duties according to the rules," he said, Sunday, February 18.

"Unfortunately, even though the DKPP issued the decision, if it was the last warning, the next sanction would be to be dismissed, but still not dismissed. Finally, the KPU's unprofessionalism in holding the election was what followed the occurrence of Sirekap events and others," he continued.

Beni stated that the massive election violations, including the alleged involvement of state apparatus in each campaign process, also indicated irregularities in the election. Moreover, one of the particular candidate pairs, for example, committed so many violations in advance that it was already able to win the contestation.

"So, whatever it does, by all means they will do to win the election, including inflating votes and others," he said.