Bawaslu Will Launch The 2024 Election Campaign Supervision System Application

Photo: Doc. Antara

JAKARTA - The Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of the Republic of Indonesia will launch the Campaign Supervision Information System or Siwaskam application which aims to facilitate supervision of the campaign stages in the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

"In the past two to three days, the Siwaskam application will be launched soon," said member of the Indonesian Bawaslu Puadi in a press conference after the "Prepared Apel for Supervision of the 2024 Election Campaign Stage" at the National Monument Field (Monas), Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Sunday, November 26.

Through this application, according to him, the campaign supervision process in the 2024 General Election will be increasingly targeted in accordance with election supervision regulations ranging from the national level to the village level.

In addition, he said, his party also reminded the district/city Bawaslu ranks to form a Campaign Supervision Facilitation Team or Timpas.

Puadi explained that the team had the task of ensuring that the campaign supervision process ran according to the corridor and the substance of supervision in holding the 2024 General Election.

Previously, the Chairman of the Indonesian Bawaslu Rahmat Bagja also asked the district/city Bawaslu ranks to make a special strategy in overseeing campaigns on social media in the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

"Identification (on social media) of popular hashtags, fake accounts, and trends that have the potential to cause false information," Bagja said in his remarks at the apple.

He said that in the world of social media all information is quickly spread to the public, so it has the potential to cause misinformation and disinformation.

Bawaslu held the apple in preparation for the supervision of the 2024 General Election stage.

The ceremony, which was attended by the district/city Bawaslu ranks throughout Indonesia, was also attended by the Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Budie Arie Setiadi and a number of representatives from related ministries/agencies.

The General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia on Monday, November 13, 2023, determined three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates to participate in the 2024 Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections (Pilpres).

The results of the draw and determination of the number of participants for the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, the pair Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar number 1, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka number 2, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md. serial 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.