KPU Affirms That The 2024 Pilkada Stages Will Not Be Disturbed After Hasyim Asy'ari Is Fired

KPU/PHOTO Commissioner: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Acting (Plt) Chairman of the General Election Commission (KPU) Mochammad Afifuddin emphasized that the stages of the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada will not be disrupted even though the position of the definitive KPU chairman is now vacant after the dismissal of Hasyim Asy'ari.

Hasyim was fired by the Honorary Council of Election Organizers (DKPP) because he was proven to have committed immoral acts.

This was revealed by Afif after the KPU held an internal plenary meeting which followed up on the DKPP decision to fill the vacant position of chairman of the election organizing institution for the time being.

"We will face the 2024 simultaneous regional elections, so what we are doing is that we want to ensure that no stages are disrupted, no preparations are disrupted in terms of organization at the KPU of the Republic of Indonesia," Afif said at the KPU office, Central Jakarta, Thursday, July 4.

Afif emphasized that the KPU would immediately conduct internal consolidation to ensure that the 2024 Pilkada would run according to the existing plans and stages.

"We will ensure that all things carry out checks, accelerations to prepare everything for the steps that lie ahead of us," Afif said.

The KPU, continued Afif, is also still focused on following up on the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the dispute over the Legislative Election (Pileg) which ordered re-voting (PSU) and recapitulation of re-voting in a number of regions.

"We will reaffirm our internal consolidation, facing a follow-up to the decision of the Constitutional Court which is still partially unfinished," Afif said.

On the one hand, Afif emphasized that his party would not comment on the contents of the DKPP decision regarding the immoral case committed by Hasyim Asy'ari. "We will not comment on the DKPP decision because it is not an institution," he added.

It is known that the DKPP imposed a permanent dismissal sanction on Hasyim Asy'ari as the chairman and a member of the KPU, related to the alleged immoral case against members of the The Hague Foreign Election Committee (PPLN), the Netherlands, with the initials CAT.

The verdict was read out in the trial of the verdict for alleged violation of the code of ethics at the DKPP office, Central Jakarta, Wednesday, July 3.

DKPP granted the complainant's complaint entirely, and asked President Joko Widodo to replace Hasyim within 7 days of the time the verdict was read.

Reports of alleged violations of the election organizers' code of ethics (KEPP) against Hasyim were initially filed by the Legal Aid Consultation Institute and the Choice of Completion of Disputes at the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia (LKBH-PPS FH UI) and the Legal Aid Institute of the Indonesian Women's Association for Justice (LBH APIK), as the victim's attorney, on Thursday 18 April 2024.

The victim's attorney assessed that the actions of KPU Chairman Hasyim Asy'ari as a defendant were included in the violation of the code of ethics based on DKPP Regulation Number 2 of 2017 concerning the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct for General Election Organizers.