JAKARTA - Foreign Minister Sugiono said Indonesia had not yet decided whether to send a monitor to Myanmar to monitor the country's general election next month, but emphasized that Indonesia wanted an inclusive process in holding its inaugural election since the military coup in 2021.
Myanmar was due to hold an election on December 28. In the middle of last month, Myanmar's Junta Leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said his country could not hold elections simultaneously.
In a joint statement after the summit in Malaysia late last month, ASEAN leaders admitted that they had accepted Myanmar's invitation to send monitoring in the upcoming elections.
"We haven't decided yet, but yesterday I also said that we want an inclusive election process, but this is back with the Myanmar side," said Foreign Minister Sugiono in a statement at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jakarta, Wednesday, November 5.
"From what the representative said during the ASEAN Summit, this is quite inclusive with various justifications of the statement and we will see the progress," added the Indonesian Foreign Minister.
ASEAN leaders at the summit then emphasized the free, fair, peaceful, transparent, inclusive and credible election process, with the termination of violence and inclusive dialogue important before elections.
Meanwhile, ASEAN Secretary General Kao Kim Hourn in a media briefing last week regarding the implementation of the summit confirmed that ASEAN would not send a monitoring team, would still hand it over to each member country if it wanted to send a monitor.
It is known that the last election was held in Myanmar in November 2020, where the National Democratic League (LND) party led by Aung San Suu Kyi won the election.
The military accused the results of the 2020 election won by the National League for Democracy (NLD) Party Aung San Suu Kyi of cheating.
Myanmar has been hit by chaos since the February 1, 2021 military coup, which sparked an armed uprising that has seized large parts of the region across the country.
Earlier, Myanmar's Military Junta Leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said the military-backed government would not be able to hold future elections across the country. This is his first public recognition that the election will not be fully inclusive, days after meeting with the Malaysian Foreign Minister and ahead of the summit.
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"We cannot hold elections in all areas 100 percent," he said in a speech broadcast on state television from the capital Naypyitaw, adding that interlocutory elections would follow in several areas after the new government was formed.
The military junta was only able to carry out a comprehensive field census to generate a voter list in 145 of the country's 330 municipalities, according to a December census report that said Myanmar's total population reached 51.3 million.
The current rule requires political parties to meet the high threshold, namely at least 50,000 members and funds of 100 million kyat (47,762.33 US dollars), so that only six parties are eligible to participate in the upcoming elections.
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