JAKARTA - The National Mandate Party (PAN) supports the idea of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) which considers it necessary to have rules limiting the use of cash or money during the general election or election stages.
According to PAN, if this idea is included in the articles of the Election Law, it will be able to purify the people's vote, encourage transparency and modernize the campaign.
"People will choose based on the value of the candidate's strategy and capacity, not just the contents of the bag," said PAN Deputy Chairwoman Viva Yoga Mauladi in a statement in Jakarta, Sunday, April 26.
He said, the voice of the people will be able to determine and control the direction of democracy, compared to the power of capital owners' money.
"So that political justice, equality of competition and integrity elections are created," he said.
According to Yoga, the idea is needed not only to be examined from the aspect of the practice of political money (vote buying), but also concerns the social and cultural systems of society, the design of political law and the color of the power structure.
"It needs detailed and rational formulations and must be operational-applicative through revisions to the Election Law and the Regional Head Election Law because the Indonesian political system is still based on high-cost mobilization and cash is the fastest, most flexible, and difficult to trace tool."
He revealed that several countries have implemented cash restriction policies in elections, such as India, Brazil, South Korea, and others.
PAN assesses that cash restrictions should not be interpreted as inhibiting or restricting the flexibility of political operations. But, this is all directed so that the value of people's sovereignty as a noble value of democracy is not transformed into an economic commodity for buying and selling votes.
"This idea will be effective in suppressing money politics in total," he said.
However, he said, it was understandable that cash restrictions did not automatically eliminate money politics, because money politics could adapt and camouflage to switch to digital transfers through third parties, or other modus operandi.
He said this policy could be effectively used for formal campaign transactions, such as advertising, logistics, consultants, in urban areas with high banking access.
From the legal policy, he continued, it has not been regulated in the Election Law or the Regional Election Law. The existing rules are still limited to regulations on the maximum contribution of individuals and private companies as well as campaign fund reports.
He said there needed to be an addition to the article on the limit of cash transactions, non-cash obligations through banks, e-wallets, QRIS, as well as creating a monitoring mechanism for integration with other state institutions, for example with PPATK and so on.
"Cash restrictions can be a control tool as part of political cost reforms, provided that the law must be enforced fairly and there is a change in the habits of party elites and voters to eliminate transactional patterns of votes in elections," said Yoga.
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