Voice Surge Is In Problem, PSI Claims Internal Data On Legislative Results Above 4 Percent

The atmosphere of the plenary meeting of the recapitulation of the vote acquisition results for the 2024 General Election at the provincial KPU level at the Claro Hotel, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Monday (4/3/2024). BETWEEN/Darwin Fatir.

PSI politician Justin Adrian Untayana claims his party has internal data regarding the projected vote acquisition for the 2024 Legislative Election of the DPR RI with results above 4 percent. This is in response to the PSI's vote spike in the real count broadcast by the KPU's Recapitulation Information System (Sirekap). The surge in PSI votes is now being questioned by a number of parties. "If PSI's internal data states that we did not pass 4 percent, then PSI will definitely immediately declare the defeat as in 2019 yesterday. But now our internal data is above 4 percent," Justin told reporters, Tuesday, March 5. Armed with this internal data, that is what makes the party chaired by President Joko Widodo's son, Kaesang Pangarep, still believes that the votes acquired by his party in the KPU Sirekap are also similar to the tiered manual recapitulation. Meanwhile, if a number of survey institutions show PSI's quick count results, PSI's votes are only around 2.5 percent to 2.8 percent, Justin doesn't believe it. "It is not wise to be prejudiced by just based on the survey results. The survey is an indicator through sampling thousands of respondents, while the KPU's manual calculation is the real calculation of hundreds of thousands of polling stations in Indonesia, where each vote is calculated," said Justin. On that basis, Justin asked all parties not to be quick to assume the surge in the votes of the party with the roses. "Everything is still happening within reasonable limits," he added. The public is being shocked by the sharp increase in PSI's vote acquisition in the 2024 Legislative Election. In the presentation of the results of the real count on the 2024.kpu.go.id election site, PSI received 3.13 percent in the DPR RI Legislative Election. In fact, a week ago, PSI votes were still at 2.68 percent. A number of non-governmental organizations that are members of the Civil Society Coalition, Guarding the Democratic Election, assessed that the increase in PSI's vote acquisition in the calculation of the KPU's real count was unreasonable. The reason is, only PSI experienced a drastic increase in votes in the 2024 Legislative Election when data on polling stations had already entered above 60 percent.

"For the Civil Society Coalition, which is very familiar with research data and is accustomed to reading data trends and dynamics, the surge in PSI vote percentages when vote data is above 60 percent is unusual and makes no sense," said coalition representative, Gufron Mabruri's Impartial Director in his statement, Sunday, March 4.