PDIP Rejects Use Of Sirekap And Postponement Of Voice Recapitulation In Districts

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The PDI-P (PDIP) rejected the use of the Recapitulation Information System (Sirekap) to record the vote acquisition for the 2024 General Election. A similar attitude was also conveyed regarding the postponement of the recapitulation of votes at the sub-district level.

This rejection was conveyed by PDIP in the form of a statement letter to the General Election Commission (KPU) on February 20. The chairman of the PDIP Election Winning Body (Bappilu) Bambang Wuryanto or Bambang Pacul signed a letter number 2599/EX/DPP/II/2024 with PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto.

"The PDI-P firmly rejects the use of Sirekap in the process of recapitulating the vote acquisition for the 2024 General Election at all levels of the plenary level," reads the letter quoted on Tuesday, February 21.

PDIP in his letter stated that Sirekap had failed to become an aid for the stages of voting and counting votes at polling stations (TPS). So, they asked for manual calculations to be carried out in accordance with Article 393 Paragraph (3) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections.

Meanwhile, the postponement of the recapitulation is considered by PDIP not necessary. The party bearing the bull symbol assesses that there is no urgency that requires this activity to be temporarily suspended.

So they rejected the KPU's direction as the organizer of the election. Because it has opened a gap in fraud in the recapitulation stage of vote count results, and violated the principles of legal certainty, effectiveness and accountability of the organizers of the 2024 General Election," the letter reads.

Then, the KPU was also asked to be responsible as the organizer. You do this by auditing Sirekap who is suspected of having problems.

'Requesting a digital forensic audit for the use of Sirekap tools in organizing the 2024 General Election then opening the results of the forensic audit to the public/public as a form of KPU accountability in holding the 2024 General Election.'