This Is The Response Of The National Police Regarding Bawaslu To Find 9,000 Police Registered As Voters In The 2024 General Election

Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan, Monday, March 13. (Rizky Adytia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Police emphasized that they would be neutral during the 2024 General Election (Pemilu). In fact, they will take firm action against their members if caught or proven to be in favor of one of the candidate pairs (paslon).

This statement was made by Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan, when asked about the findings of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawasalu) regarding the findings of 9,000 Polri members being included in the voter list in the 2024 General Election. Police

"We make sure that the Police are neutral, yes, we have conveyed TR, we have conveyed a message to the ranks that members of the National Police in accordance with Law No. 2 of 2002 concerning the Indonesian National Police must be neutral," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan, to reporters, Friday, March 31.

Sanctions for members who take sides are one proof that the Police remain in the middle or fairly.

Regarding the imposition of sanctions, continued Ramadhan, it will go through a trial mechanism of the Police Code of Ethics Commission (KKEP). Of course, taking into account the involvement or role of these members.

"Of course there are sanctions for members of the National Police if they are involved in practical politics. What is the sanction, we will see what their role is, what kind of violation, whether it can be subject to disciplinary violations, whether it is an ethical violation, we will see violations committed by members of the National Police," said Ramadhan.

Previously, the Bawaslu of the Republic of Indonesia recorded more than 20 thousand members of the TNI-Polri as a list of voters for the 2024 General Election. It is spread in 8 provinces.

For members of the TNI, there were 11,457 with distributions in West Java, NTT, Aceh, Jambi, and Lampung.

Meanwhile, there are around 9,198 members of the National Police in DKI Jakarta, West Java, NTT, Southeast Sulawesi, and Maluku.

This figure was obtained based on the results of Bawaslu's supervision of the matching and research process (coklit) of the 2024 General Election voter list.