Bawaslu Expect Cases Of 7 Former PPLN Members Fake Data On 2024 Election Voters In Kuala Lumpur Not Repeated

Chairman of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) Rahmat Bagja. (doc. Bawaslu-Bhakti Satrio)

Chairman of the Indonesian Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) Rahmat Bagja said election fraud in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia should not happen again.

Seven former members of the Overseas Election Committee (PPLN) have been charged with falsifying data and lists of foreign voters for the 2024 General Election in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

"That there should no longer be any violations in the future in Kuala Lumpur, especially for elections," said Bagja in the Petojo Selatan area, Jakarta, Friday, March 15, which was confiscated by Antara.

However, Bagja acknowledged that the holding of elections in Kuala Lumpur has a high vulnerability.

"Oh yes, it's prone, right, the most vulnerable in overseas elections, yes, Kuala Lumpur," he said.

Previously, Bagja said that the legal case involving seven former members of PPLN Kuala Lumpur was a warning to other PPLNs.

"The criminal form actually gives a warning. So we are given a warning to our friends, to citizens or organizers who want to play games," said Bagja in an online discussion monitored from Jakarta, Wednesday (13/3).

Bagja also said that the violations committed by the seven PPLN members included the egg burst event.

"This history, the eggs are broken now. The criminal act can reach the court for criminal acts abroad," he said.

Therefore, he said that PPLN could not evade violations on the grounds that they were abroad.

"You are abroad, you can still be criminalized now. So then you can't excuse 'we are abroad, there is no premise, the jurisdiction can't be for us'," said Bagja.

Meanwhile, the seven defendants are PPLN Chairman Kuala Lumpur Umar Faruk, PPLN member Kuala Lumpur Finance Division Tita Octavia Cahya Rahayu, PPLN member Kuala Lumpur Data and Information Division Dicky Saputra, and PPLN member Kuala Lumpur Division HR Aprijon.

Then, PPLN member Kuala Lumpur, Puji Sumarsono Socialization Division, member of PPLN Kuala Lumpur, Technical Division of the Khalil Election, and member of PPLN Kuala Lumpur, Masduki Khamdan Muhammad Logistics Division.

The seven people were charged by the Public Prosecutor (JPU) for falsifying data and lists of foreign voters for the 2024 General Election in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

"That the defendant has intentionally committed an unlawful act of falsifying data and voter lists, whether ordering, who did, or participating," said the Public Prosecutor of the Attorney General's Office at the Central Jakarta District Court, Wednesday (13/3).

The prosecutors said that the defendants entered incorrect and invalid data because it did not match the results of the data matching and research (coclit) into the temporary voter list (DPS), became a revised DPS (DPSHP), and was set to become a permanent voter list (DPT).

The defendants are also said to have moved the voter list of polling stations (TPS) methods to the mobile ballot box (KSK) method and posts in data conditions and unknown or incomplete voter addresses.