Almost Missed, Pramono Asks Timses To Guard The Regional Head Election Campaign From Children

Pramono Anung/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Candidate for Governor of Jakarta number 3, Pramono Anung, again held a meeting with residents to shop for problems in Duri Kepa Village, Kebon Jeruk, South Jakarta.

Before Pramono arrived at the location, a number of residents had gathered waiting for the arrival of the candidates for governors of the PDIP and Hanura associations.

The winning team also distributed t-shirts for residents to wear. The t-shirt depicts Pramono and Rano Karno, and lists number 3 as candidate pair serial numbers, and the hashtag #JakartaMenyala which is their campaign slogan.

Ahead of the start of the event, several children were seen entering the activity location. In fact, there are a handful of children who are wearing t-shirts for Pramono-Rano supporters.

Meanwhile, the Bawaslu sub-district supervisory committee (panwascam) in charge of monitoring Pramono's campaign activities at that location immediately reprimanded the child's parents and asked that the t-shirt be removed immediately before the event began.

Responding to this, Pramono admitted that he had asked the success team (timses) to keep children from being involved as much as possible during the Jakarta Pilkada campaign activities.

"I always ask that there be no violations, yes. Also small children, I have asked the team not to be involved in this campaign much," said Pramono in Duri Kepa, West Jakarta, Monday, October 7.

Referring to Article 15 Paragraph a of Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law Number 23 Tahyn 2002 concerning Child Protection, it is stated that every child has the right to receive protection from abuse in political activities.

So, it is clear that children should not be involved in campaign activities. However, Pramono admitted that it was not that easy to avoid the arrival of children whose parents were brought into campaign activities.

"It's unavoidable, mothers come with their children because they are also their children, they are still young, they cannot be left at home. But on average these children don't understand anything," explained Pramono.

"But now something like this is not hard campaign like it used to be. This is a soft campaign, part of political education, what problems are, and so on," he added.