TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - An alleged cheating was said to had happened in a polling station (TPS) number 14 at Ujung Menteng, East Jakarta. Responding to this, the Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU) finally held a re-vote there on Saturday, as reported by Antara News.

The head of East Jakarta Election Monitoring Board (Panwaslu), Iflaha Zufriyaten, said that the alleged cheating was discovered after the vote counting on April 9. It revealed that from the 348 existing permanent voters list (DPT), there were 78 of exceed votes. Such a thing happened although the vote counting was conducted until five times.

"From our investigation, there was an effort to raise the vote of one of Jakarta Parliament (DPRD) candidates. In fact, from 348 DPTs, the votes are 100 percent for DPRD, while for House of Representatives (DPR) and Regional Representatives Council (DPD) none. This is strange. The amount of votes for DPR and DPD should have been different," he stated on Saturday.

Moreover, East Jakarta Panwaslu also discovered the fact that there was no invitation letters or C6 forms inside the ballot boxes. Thus, they were having difficulties in counting the amount of residents who have given their votes on April 9.

Meanwhile, Head of East Jakarta KPU, Nurdin, confirmed about this re-vote. "When asked to KPPS officials, they did not know about the C6 forms. That is strange. That's why Panwaslu investigated this matter. We clearly have been fooled by them about this case," he stressed.

ANTARA