KPU Hopes For Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidate Campaign Materials With Disabilities

KPU member Idham Holik at the "Bedah HAM: Measuring the Implementation and Projection of Human Rights in the 2024 General Election" in Jakarta, Friday (11/24/2023). (ANTARA/Aprillio Abdullah Akbar)

The General Election Commission (KPU) has asked the campaign team for three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates to also use disability-friendly campaign materials to attract voters in the 2024 presidential election.

"We hope that this pair of candidates, the campaign material will use disability, both sign language and text," said KPUIdham Holik member at the event "Bedah HAM: Measuring the Implementation and Projection of Human Rights in the 2024 General Election" in Jakarta as reported by ANTARA, Friday, November 24.

According to Idham, elections are not only a matter of getting as many votes as possible, but must also pay attention to issues about human rights (HAM), especially from vulnerable groups, one of which is disability groups.

"The number of disabilities is not large, so it is not considered," continued Idham.

Therefore, he continued, his party hopes that the three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates have a high commitment to access campaign information to disabilities.

"They (disabled) are citizens who have the same political rights as us," he explained.

Previously, the same thing was conveyed by the Director General (Dirjen) of Human Rights of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) Dhana Putra.

Dhana said that holding elections must protect human rights.

"The election is not only a political process, but also a basic mechanism through the election there are human rights," said Dhana.

According to him, every citizen has the right to take part in his country's government directly, namely by choosing his representative. Therefore, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights has the right to campaign for human rights-friendly elections.

The KPU appointed three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates as participants in the 2024 presidential election, namely Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar number 1, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka number 2, and Ganjar Pranowo-MahfudMD number 3.

The KPU has also set a campaign period from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024, then the voting schedule will be on February 14, 2024.