The Participation Rate For The 2024 Pilkada Declines, PDIP Suspects Many Voters Are Not Given An Invitation Letter By The Mencoblos

PDIP press conference H + 1 Pilkada 2024 at the PDIP DPP Office, Menteng, Jakarta, Thursday 28 November. (Diah-VOI)

JAKARTA - The head of the PDIP Regional Election National Winning Team, Adian Napitupulu, said that the participation of voters who came to the polling stations (TPS) to exercise their voting rights in the 2024 Pilkada decreased.

"In Jakarta, it is estimated that (voting participation) is around 58 to 60 percent. So there is a decrease of between 12 and 14 percent compared to the previous election. In Jogja it fell, in Bogor Regency it was only 55 percent, in the city of Bogor it was also the same," said Adian at the PDIP DPP Office, Menteng, Central Jakarta, Thursday, November 28.

From the report he received, Adian said that voter participation in this year's regional election was decreased due to many residents who did not receive an invitation letter voting, namely the C-Notification form. KWK from the voting organization group (KPPS).

PDIP then mapped out who the residents did not receive the invitation letter from the report. Adian concluded that most of them were residents who chose the candidate pair promoted by PDIP.

"Some of the things earlier, one of the things I conveyed was that there were many complaints to us, they didn't get a summons to come to the TPS and this number was very large. This is what we are currently investigating, where it is stuck," Adian explained.

"If we map it, 'who do you choose?' Someone said, 'yes, I chose Mr. Pram, I chose Doel. Well, there are many voters who are voters, Mr. Pram and Bang Doel, who we identify cannot get a summons. Likewise in other areas," he added.

On that occasion, Adian said that his party also sniffed out money politics used to overthrow candidates for regional heads promoted by PDIP. Adian monitors the high cost of politics to beat PDIP. These PDIP opponents deployed social assistance and envelopes.

"All of this is a very large cost, which is very expensive. What impact? The impact is that later they will look for a replacement, most likely if not from the APBN, yes from the APBD," explained Adian.

Adian suspects that next year there will be many state and regional budgets that are sucked in to replace very high political costs. According to him, this happened due to money politics games such as social assistance, envelopes and so on in the 2024 Pilkada. This condition occurs at the same time taxes rose 12 percent.

"At the same time, we paid in debt and the interest was Rp. 400 trillion. Meanwhile, we were only able to borrow Rp. 450 trillion. Now all of these accumulations will lead in 2025 and 2026. Our people will feel it evenly," he said.

So that Adian views that the Pilkada actually presents new problems. Even though the democratic event is expected by the people to bring in a solution.

"This means that the election that previously had to be a solution for the people, the next time it was done wrong it became a new problem, which was continuous to the people," concluded the Deputy Secretary General of PDIP.