Only From The News, Bawaslu Simpulsed The Central Java Police Calling 176 Village Heads Not Related To Elections

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Chairman of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) of Central Java Province, Nur Kholiq, stated that the Central Java Regional Police had found no elements of election violations. The conclusion is based on the results of media reports.

This was conveyed by Nur Kholiq when presented by Bawaslu as a witness for the trial of the General Election Result Dispute (PHPU) at the Constitutional Court (MK), Wednesday, April 3.

"The first of the applicants, related to the summoning of the village head by the Central Java Police, is this part of the findings? We said no, because we did not find any elements related to the election," said Nur Kholiq.

The head of the Constitutional Court, Suhartoyo then questioned several things, one of which was whether or not the summons of hundreds of village heads were true.

At that time, Nur Kholiq did not straightforwardly answer the question. Sabab, only said that the Central Java Province Bawaslu knew about this from media reports.

"But there was an activity of the summons?" asked Suhartoyo.

"We know from the news in the media," answered Nur Kholiq.

"Where did Suhartoyo call him?"

"If the news in the media is mentioned in the Regional Police Headquarters," said Nur Kholiq.

Suhartoyo again questioned Nur Kholiq about the village heads being gathered in the Karanganyar area. However, everything that was known by Bawaslu Central Java was again answered based on the news.

"Not in Karanganyar?" asked Suhartoyo.

"No, some of what we call if we read, we found out that if we read in the media in Karanganyar, the village head from Karanganyar," said Nur Kholiq.

"How come you can conclude that you have nothing to do with electoralism?" said Suhartoyo.

"Because in the news in the media it was stated that it was related to the investigation of the alleged corruption case, Your Honor, so there was no connection with electoralism," said Nur Kholiq.

"176 village heads in this?" Suhartoyo said.

"From the media reports, that's how it is," said Nur Kholiq.

Previously, a witness from the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin) camp, Anies Prijo Ansharie, said that the Central Java Police had piled up all Karanganyar village heads ahead of the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

"First, what we report is related to the inauguration of village heads throughout Karanganyar, except for the city sub-district by the regional police through the head of the village community empowerment service," said Anies.

He said there were 176 village heads who were summoned on November 29, 2023. The context of the summons is related to the use of village funds.

However, the summons was held. Because, at that time it was postponed indefinitely.

"So 176 village heads were summoned by the regional police through the head of the village community empowerment service," he said.

"Because this is related to the use of the provincial BPOD funds that call the regional police. Summoned to the regional police," continued Anies.

However, Anies stated that he did not look directly at the summons of village heads. This is because the alleged mobilization was known to him from another party.

"We got information via WhatsApp to me in the group that it would happen like this," he said.