2024 Election: Police Top Official Talks of Foreign Funding to a Certain Presidential Candidate Pair
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16 November 2023 07:20 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Police’s Head of Security Maintenance Agency Comr. Gen. Fadil Imran held a meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission III on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, to present a police report which includes the potential vulnerability of foreign intelligence operations in the upcoming 2024 election.
During the meeting, Secretary General of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Aboe Bakar Alhabsy expressed concerns about the flow of a foreign funding from a foreign intelligence operations towards one of the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair.
“On page 35 [of the report], it is stated that there are foreign intelligence operations in Indonesia. This includes providing clandestine (illegal) financial support to certain coalitions of presidential and vice-presidential candidate pair,” Alhabsy said.
However, Imran clarified that he did not 'say' that any presidential and vice presidential candidates were financed by foreigners to run for the 2024 elections.
"It was he (Alhabsy) who said it, but he didn't quote it (the page) in detail. What is written here (page 35) is the potential vulnerability of foreign intelligence operations. Indonesia is a geographically and geopolitically strategic country, so it really doesn't rule out the possibility of a potential interference from foreign parties. So no, it hasn't happened yet,” Imran stressed when met after the meeting.
Imran said that what was contained in the National Police's report at the meeting was about the potential that could occur in the political months leading up to the 2024 elections.
“The potential is the same as the potential for disruption of logistics distribution, the potential for vulnerability to the rainy season. We are facing consequences as a country with a large population and a geopolitical, geostrategic location in the middle of the continents of Asia and Australia, and so on. There will very likely be foreign interests,” Imran said.
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