UN Human Rights Committee Criticizes Jokowi's Neutrality, AMIN National Team: This Is A Hard Slap

President Joko Widodo (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo received the spotlight on his neutrality in the implementation of the 2024 General Election by members of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN).

Spokesperson for the National Team for the Winning of Anies-Muhaimin (AMINAn National Team) Billy David Neututumilena considered it a stern warning to the government.

"We need to see this as a hard slap for the government. Where the issue that should be a domestic issue is of international concern," Billy told reporters, Monday, March 18.

Billy asked the government to realize that the government's suspicions of interference with the 2024 General Election still arise, even abroad even though voting day has been completed. The government, according to him, needs to take serious steps on this matter.

"We also need to see these issues in international glasses how Indonesia should play a more active role in explaining what situations are happening in its country to the international arena," he said.

The UN International Covant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) session also highlighted the implementation of the 2024 Presidential and Vice Presidential Election (Pilpres) in Indonesia, especially regarding the neutrality of President Joko Widodo.

In a hearing that took place to discuss the latest human rights issues in a number of countries, in Geneva Switzerland, March 12, a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, Bacre Waly Ndiaye questioned Jokowi's neutrality in Gibran Rakabuming Raka's candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.

Ndiaye questioned the guarantee of political rights for Indonesian citizens (WNI) in the 2024 General Election. He even mentioned the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) which passed Gibran Rakabuming Raka as a participant in the 2024 presidential election. Because the rules for the age requirements for the presidential election participants were changed by the Constitutional Court.

The campaign was held after a final-minute verdict that changed the nomination terms, allowing the president's son to participate in nominations, Ndiaye said in a hearing broadcast on the UN Web TV page.

He also questioned what steps should be taken so that state officials are not involved or joked at the once-in-a-five-year democratic party in Indonesia. "What steps are taken to ensure state officials, including the president, cannot have an excessive influence on elections," he said.