Regional Heads Who Transfer ASN Officials Ahead Of Pilkada Are Threatened With Sanctions

Bawaslu member Lolly Suhenty (ANTARA/Narda Margaretha Sinambela)

JAKARTA - Member of the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) Lolly Suhenty said regional heads who transfer State Civil Apparatus (ASN) officials ahead of the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada are threatened with administrative and criminal sanctions.

This refers to Article 71 paragraph (2) of Law Number 10 of 2016 which reads that Governors or Deputy Governors, Regents or Deputy Regents, and Mayors or Deputy Mayors are prohibited from replacing officials six months before the date of determination of candidate pairs until the end of their term of office unless they have written approval from the Minister.

"That must be included in the alleged violation of election administration. We will check again later," said Lolly at the Bawaslu office, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, April 5.

Article 190 explains that officials who violate the provisions of Article 71 paragraph (2) or Article 162 paragraph (3) will be sentenced to a minimum imprisonment of one month or a maximum of six months and/or a fine of at least Rp. 600,000 or a maximum of Rp. 6,000,000.

It is known that Bawaslu has sent a letter to the Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian with letter number 438/PM/K1/03/2024 regarding appeals.

In the letter, it was stated that regional heads, both governors of mayors and regents throughout Indonesia, were prohibited from mutating employees from March 22, 2024, until the end of the term of office of a regional head.

Therefore, Lolly reminded regional heads not to violate the provisions regarding mutations. The reason is, this condition will have a very broad impact.

"And in this context, of course the potential for alleged administrative violations will be large," he explained.

The following is the schedule for the 2024 Pilkada:

1. 27 February-16 November 2024: notification and registration of election monitors;

2. April 24-May 31, 2024: handing over a list of potential voters;

3. May 5, August 19, 2024: fulfillment of the requirements for support for individual candidate pairs;

4. May 31-September 23, 2024: updating and compiling of voter lists;

5. 24-26 August 2024: announcement of registration of candidate pairs;

6. 27-29 August 2024: registration of candidate pairs;

7. 27 August-21 September 2024: research on candidate requirements;

8. September 22, 2024: determination of candidate pairs;

9. September 25-23 November 2024: campaign implementation;

10. November 27, 2024: the implementation of the vote;

11. 27 November-16 December 2024: vote count and vote count recapitulation.