Ahead Of Political Year, KPK Admits It Can't Monitor Elite Movement In "Illegal Room"

Illustration of party flags in Indonesia (Bawaslu)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri said he could not monitor all political meetings ahead of the 2024 General Election (Pemilu). Moreover, if the meeting in a closed or dark room.

"We don't know about the meeting in the dark room," Firli told reporters, Friday, August 25.

Even so, the KPK ensures that efforts to keep elections running clean have been carried out in various ways. In addition to taking action, there are also prevention and education that are carried out to warn of the dangers of money politics.

For the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) and the General Election Commission (KPU), for example. Firli said, the KPK has reminded the implementation of the 2024 General Election to be honest and fair and direct, clean, free, confidential.

"So are the election participants," he said.

"Whether it's a political party that we pack in a smart political program with integrity, including contestants, whether it's an individual or a regional head candidate, we have conveyed the legislative candidate in the Political Party Integrity System format," Firli continued.

Then for the community, the KPK also often campaigns to 'Learn Fajar Attack'. This program is expected to remind people's voices not to be traded.

"It is said that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Of course we do not trade, so we beat it together with all forms of money politics," concluded the former Deputy for Prevention of the KPK.