Dharma-Kun Wardana Threatened With Crime If Proven Catut NIK Residents Become Supporters In The Jakarta Pilkada

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JAKARTA - The public has been shocked by the alleged unilateral profiteering of the population identification number (NIK) of a number of residents who are supporters of the prospective pair of candidates for the Governor-Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta for the individual route, Dharma Pongrekun-Kun Wardhana.

The electoral expert, Titi Anggraini emphasized, there is a criminal threat if the Dharma-Kun Wardana pair is proven to manipulate the collection of support in order to progress as a cagub-cawagub independent pathway.

"The Pilkada Law regulates that manipulation of support for individual candidates is a criminal act, as stipulated in Law Number 8 of 2015 and Law Number 10 of 2016 concerning the Election of Governors, Regents, and Mayors," Titi said when contacted, Friday, August 16.

In Article 185A of Law Number 18 of 2016 concerning Pilkada, it is stated that anyone who deliberately falsifies a list of supports for individual candidates is sentenced to a minimum imprisonment of 36 months and a maximum of 72 months, and a fine of at least Rp36 million and a maximum of Rp72 million.

On that basis, Titi recommends that people who find their data are painted by a pair of candidates and not verified factually in the nomination process to report it to the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu).

"It is better to report directly to the provincial Bawaslu for the nomination of governors and district/city Bawaslu for the nomination of regents/mayors in their regions," said Titi.

The DKI Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU) announced that the Dharma Pongrekun-Kun Wardana pair passed the results of the second factual verification on the condition of support to register as Jakarta cagub-cawagub.

Dharma-Kun is said to have the support of 677,486 residents who have been declared by the KPU to meet the requirements. Their number of supporters exceeds the minimum limit of the Jakarta cagub-cawagub support requirements for individual routes of 618,968 people.

Chairman of the DKI Jakarta KPU Wahyu Dinata said that Dharma-Kun was declared eligible to register as a candidate pair for governor and deputy governor of DKI Jakarta on an independent path.

"Pak Dharma Pongrekun dan Kun Wardana memenuhi syarat sebagai bakal pasangan calon gubernur dan wakil gubernur untuk 27 November mendatang," kata Wahyu di Kantor KPU DKI Jakarta, Jakarta Pusat, Kamis, 16 Agustus.

The day after the announcement, a number of people admitted that their NIK was used as a supporter of Dharma-Kun. This was revealed on social media after they checked their NIK on the page www.infopemilu.kpu.go.id/voting/check_supporter.

In fact, former DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan admitted that his family and relatives were also used by his NIK as supporters of Dharma-Kun.

In fact, they were never asked to support the individual path pair. Also, never hand over his ID card as a form of support to the Dharma-Kun Wardana team.

"Alhamdulillah, my ID card is safe. But the ID cards of two children, younger siblings, as well as some of the teams working together were also included in the list of supporters of independent candidates," Anies explained in the account X @aniesbaswedan.