Dirty Vote's Director and 3 Legal Experts Reported to Police

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The director and three constitutional law experts featured in the viral documentary movie, Dirty Vote, were reported to the National Police by the Indonesian Santri Communication Forum (Foksi) on Tuesday, Feb. 13.

Dirty Vote is a documentary film directed by Dandhy Laksono that exposes alleged systematic election fraud by President Joko Widodo or Jokowi’s administration and is explained by three constitutional law experts, namely Zainal Arifin Mochtar, Feri Amsari, Bivitri Susanti 

“We tried to file a report. We filed it yesterday but we lacked documents. Today, we are completing the documents,” Foksi chairman M. Natsir Sahib told Tempo in a text on Tuesday, Feb. 13.

Natsir believed that the long-form movie had harmed one of the pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates contesting in the election. He accused the four people of committing election violations, especially since the film was released during the cooling-off period before voting day on Feb. 14.

“Releasing a film about election fraud during the cooling-off period in order to create an uproar and corner one of the presidential candidate pairs is against the Election Law,” he stressed.

To back up his accusation, Natsir alluded to the involvement of Zainal, Feri, and Bivitri in the legal reform team at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs under the leadership of Mahfud MD, who is currently running for vice president with Ganjar Pranowo. 

“These academics have destroyed the democratic order and fulfilled the elements of malicious conspiracy to create issues that cannot be accounted for, resulting in slander and false data being distributed to the public,” he reiterated.

Natsir argued that the director and the three academics had violated Article 287 paragraph (5) of Law No. 7 of 2017 concerning elections. He also urged the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit to handle the case professionally. “Since it was published during the cooling-off period, it is a serious violation and tendentious against one of the candidates,” he concluded.

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