The selection team (Timsel) of the Bali Province Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has announced the names of candidates for Bawaslu Bali members for the period 2023-2028 which they stated passed the interview and health selection stages.
Announcement number 005/PENG/TIMSELBALI/06/2023 dated June 13, 2023, listing 10 (ten) names namely Ketut Ariyani, I Wayan Wirka, Cok Raka Partawijaya, I Gede Krisna Adi Widana, I Nyoman Gede Putra Wiratma, I Putu Agus Tirta Suguna, I Putu Gede Suastrawan, Gede Sutrawan, I Gusti Agung Ngurah Darmayuda, and I Wayan Arsa Jaya.
As is known, the Bali Bawaslu Team for the period 2023-2028 consists of Anak Agung Gede Oka Wisnumurti as chairman, Radian Syam secretary and Jeiry Sumampow, I Putu Tuni Cakabawa Landra, Putu Gede Arya Sumerta Yasa respectively as members.
The South Timor announcement was considered full of problems. The reason is, there are allegations that the South Timor was not careful and was not objective and was not open regarding the test results so that it passed several names that had traces that were injured during their tenure as election organizers.
This was expressed by Fachrudin, Secretary of the Regional Leadership of the Muhammadiyah Youth Province of Bali. According to him, the inaccuracy and inaccuracy of the selection team can be seen from the passing of several names that have clearly received sanctions from the Election Honorary and Organizer Council (DKPP), one of which is in the case number 93-PKE-DKPP/IX/2020, the defendant was proven to have held concurrent positions as a Statement or Madya Community Secretary of the Karangasem Regency for the 2019-2020 Transitional Service Period, so that the DKPP imposed a strong warning sanction and dismissal from the Chairperson's position.
In addition to this name, there are names of selection participants who have received warning sanctions from the DKPP with decision number 144-PKE-DKPP/VI/2019 because they were proven to have violated the code of ethics and code of conduct of election organizers. The decision was based on complaints from all Bawaslu members of Buleleng district who based on the results of supervision found a number of polling stations (TPS) that did not have a voting booth, the delay in voting time and the lack of logistics for one of the voting papers for the selection of candidates for members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) for the Bali electoral district.
Not to mention the use of mineral water boxes as voting booths also added to the long list of logistical problems for the 2019 election in Buleleng Regency at that time.
"The chaotic management of logistics for the 2019 election in Buleleng district is a serious and first thing to happen in Bali and occurred when one of the Bawaslu selection participants became part of the 2019 election, so it clearly proves that the person concerned is unprofessional in working as an election organizer," said the man who is also the coordinator of one of the election monitoring institutions, quoted on Saturday, June 17.
Another thing that Fachrudin highlighted was related to the transparency of the selection team regarding the results of a series of participant tests which he suspected were not based on actual objectivity or facts ranging from the values of CAT, psychology, health and interviews. This he concluded based on direct checking of several participants whose CAT values were higher than some of the participants released by South Timor.
Not to mention the psychological and health results, he alleged that there were participants who were actually considered or even not recommended the results of their medical tests but were forced to pass by South Timor.
"We as part of the community's entity demand South Timor to rank the 10 names chosen based on actual values, not on the basis of subjectivity or pressure and entrusted by certain parties, and in the near future our team will ask the South Timor secretariat or Bawaslu to be known to the public so that the principles of public openness can be guaranteed and implemented," he said.
Furthermore, Fachrudin also admitted that he still had notes on several names that he was ready to open to the public if his demands were not responded to by the Indonesian South Timor or Bawaslu and he also emphasized that he would continue to track the names of others that had been chosen and announced regarding their respective track records to be announced to the public so that the public would know the quality and integrity of each candidate who would carry out the supervision of the elections in Bali.
Fachrudin continued, in addition to the above problems, there were also fundamental national issues that were injured, namely the color of diversity that was not visible and was not fulfilled by the South Timor decision.
"Because we are jointly committed to the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, the South Timor's decision has actually hurt the fundamental principles of our nationality and this is dangerous for the development of our democracy in the future so that we demand the Indonesian Bawaslu to intervene by annulling the selection team's decision. At the same time, we provide other options that can be carried out by the Indonesian Bawaslu, namely to make changes to the recruitment technical guidelines so that the last stages of the Bali Provincial Bawaslu selection, namely Fit and Proper Test, are carried out to the tens of candidates for Bawaslu Bali members, so as not to close the space and opportunities for other candidates who are more qualified and experienced in election supervision, and reflect the color of diversity so that commitment to building democracy and upholding the Republic of Indonesia can truly be realized and not only as a slogan," he concluded.
On this occasion Fachrudin also invited all parties throughout Indonesia who were harmed or aware of the Timsel pattern in his area which allegedly had similarities in Bali in order to dare to speak up as a shared responsibility for all elements of the nation to maintain and present quality democracy through the 2024 election with quality and integrity whose main requirements start from the recruitment of quality organizers and quality recruitment results as well.
"On this occasion, the Leadership of the Muhammadiyah Youth Region, the Bali Province, announced the opening of a complaint post to all elements of Balinese society and all elements of the Indonesian people who have information or have been harmed by the South Timor's decision in their respective regions to send data and the chronology of the events, respectively, so that we can collect them together so that we can announce them to the public so that the public knows all the dilapidated events of the Bawaslu selection system throughout Indonesia," he concluded.
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