Keok In Potential Dapil, Ummat Party Values Troubled Sirekap Algorithm

Chairman of the Ummat Party, Ridho Rahmadi, at a press conference on the alleged fraud in the 2024 General Election. (Abdul A M-VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ummat Party has lost or has not won maximum votes in a number of potential electoral districts (dapil). The party founded by Amien Rais suspects that there is fraud in the 2024 election due to this.

General Chairperson of the Ummat Party, Ridho Rahmadi, admitted that his party is currently gathering evidence of fraud in the 2024 General Election which will then be reported to the authorities.

"The Ummat Party continues to collect evidence that harms the Ummat party and in time we will take it to Bawaslu. In many potential electoral districts, the Ummat Party's votes suddenly disappear," said Ridho at the Ummat Party DPP office, South Jakarta (Jaksel), Thursday 22 February.

Ridho suspects that the fraud in the 2024 General Election that happened to his party was caused by the Voice Recapitulation Information System (Sirekap) algorithm.

He explained that the Ummat Party Law Council had pocketed evidence in the form of placing Sirekap application servers abroad, so according to him, opening the entrance to data manipulation of election results.

In fact, said Ridho, placing the election server abroad violates Law number 27 of 2022 concerning personal data protection and Government Regulation number 71 of 2019 article 20 concerning the necessity to have servers in Indonesia for important data related to the public sector and using the state budget.

"Our doubts about Sirekap earlier, it is wise for a third party to have an independent audit appointed together, we do not have the power of the study center in Indonesia to study this digital forensics or the IT audit," he said.

Furthermore, Ridho said that the Ummat Party also saw a formal defect carried out by the KPU by not attaching a copy of the C form at the village or village offices.

Transparency of form C, he continued, must be mandated in accordance with Article 66 Paragraph 4 of PKPU Number 25 of 2023 concerning Technical Guidelines for the Implementation of Voting and Counting in General Elections.

Amien Rais' son-in-law is committed to continuing to oversee the vote count process and process the alleged 2024 election to the authorities.