Megawati Receives Many Reports Of Non-N Neutral Officials In The 2024 Pilkada, Forces To Select Certain Paslons

PDIP Chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

Chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri admitted that she received many reports regarding the neutrality of state officials in the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada.

The apparatus even forced it to roll out money politics to the public to choose a certain pair of candidates for regional heads.

In fact, all parties know this violates statutory regulations. This was revealed by Megawati through a video that was played at the PDIP DPP office, Menteng, Central Jakarta.

"I heard so many reports against state institutions that are not neutral. They force certain pairs of candidates with various intimidation and at the same time the lure of free basic necessities, even money. They are all part of the money politics," said Megawati, Wednesday, November 20.

The 5th President of the Republic of Indonesia emphasized that the Constitutional Court (MK) has issued a decision number 136/PUU-XXII/2024 which changes the phrase pepper article 188 of Law Number 1 of 2018.

The ruling reads "every state official, regional official, ASN official, TNI-Polri member, and village head or other designation/lurah who deliberately violates the provisions as referred to in Article 71, shall be punished with imprisonment for a minimum of 1 month or a maximum of 6 months and/or a fine of at least Rp600 thousand or a maximum of Rp6 million".

"Remember that the Constitutional Court has made a very important decision that non-neutral state officials can be subject to criminal sanctions," said Megawati.

Megawati emphasized that all participants in the regional head election and the proposing parties have the same rights in participating in the democratic contestation. Thus, he stressed that people should be given the freedom to make their choices.

"To all state apparatus, regional head officials, TNI, Polri, state civil servants, sub-district heads to village heads, I call for, as people who also have the same rights, to be neutral and must not take sides," he said.