KPU DKI Verifies 18 Parties To Register For Legislation At The DKI DPRD

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU) has received 18 political parties that have registered candidates for legislative members (bacaleg) in the DKI Jakarta DPRD since Sunday, May 14 evening.

These parties include the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the Perindo Party, the NasDem Party, the Crescent Star Party (PBB), the Nusantara Awakening Party (PKN).

Then the Indonesian Change Guard Party, the Democratic Party, the Indonesian People's Wave Party (Gelora), the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), the Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), the National Awakening Party (PKB), and the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI).

Then, the National Mandate Party (PAN), the Golkar Party, the United Development Party (PPP), the Labor Party, and the Ummat Party.

"Overall, we have received parties that have proposed candidates for DPRD members. In total there are 18. All of them submit," said the Commissioner of the DKI Jakarta KPU for Election Implementation Technical Affairs, Nurdin when contacted, Monday, May 15.

The majority, the number of legislators registered by each political party amounted to 106 people, according to the number of seats in the DKI Jakarta DPRD. However, there are also parties that register the leg less than the number of seats for DPRD members.

After this, Nurdin said that the DKI KPU immediately carried out administrative verification of each proposed leg. The stages of balaleg verification, both members of the DPR RI, DPD RI Provincial DPRD, and DPRD regencies/cities, were carried out until June 23.

"On June 15 to 23, we will carry out an administrative verification process of each prospective candidate that has been submitted. In this verification process, we will see the suitability of the data submitted through the SILON application," said Nurdin.

SILON or the Nomination Information System is an application belonging to the KPU in the form of data collection on personal data which is filled by each prospective election participant. SILON can be accessed by the public as a form of transparency of election data.

In the administrative verification stage, the KPU will synchronize the data of prospective candidates registered with the KPU with the data in SILON. The KPU also opens a complaint room for the public if there are prospective candidates who do not provide data according to the facts.

"After June 23 to June 26, we will convey it to political parties as a result of administrative verification. If the person concerned does not meet the requirements or BMS, the party must immediately complete until its status meets the requirements or MS," Nurdin explained.

"Then from June 26 to July 9, the political parties carried out the repair process. From there, then we carried out the repair verification process. If in the repair verification process data is still not eligible, then we will cross out the name," he added.