Kera Attributes Are A Problem, Bandarlampung KPU Decides The 2024 Pilkada Without Maskot

The launch of the 2024 simultaneous regional elections and mascot stages on Sunday (19/5/2024). (ANTARA)

The Bandarlampung General Election Commission (KPU) has decided that the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Head Election stage is without mascot to avoid prolonged polemics.

"In response to the mascot polemic of the Bandarlampung 2024 Pilkada, we decided not to use mascot during the stages," said Bandarlampung KPU chairman Dedy Triyadi, quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, May 26.

He said that the monkey-shaped mascot using Lampung traditional attributes that had been launched on Sunday (19/5) would not be brought up at all during the pilkada stage.

"There is no more mascot at all. The KPU will only use the Bandarlampung Pilkada," he said.

He also admitted that he had met and held a meeting with the Lampung Customary Advisory Council (MPAL) and apologized for the negligence of the Bandarlampung KPU for determining that the winner of the mascot competition had offended the public.

"I personally and institutionally have apologized profusely and sincerely for our negligence in establishing the mascot of the Bandarlampung Regional Election," he said.

According to Dedy, negligence in the Simultaneous Regional Head Elections of Badarlampung, was not intentional, but due to ignorance, without any intention of degrading the customs of the people of Lampung.

"This mosque is the result of a competition made by the people of Bandarlampung for the socialization facilities for the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Head Elections," he said.

Dedy Triyadi also hopes that the Indigenous Leaders of Saibatin and Pepadun throughout Lampung Province will continue to support the Bandarlampung KPU so that the simultaneous regional elections in this city will continue to be conducive.

"Of course we really hope that the support of traditional leaders in this province so that the stages of the National Simultaneous Pilkada on November 27, 2024 will run smoothly according to the stages determined by the Indonesian KPU," he said.