Election Frauds in the Eyes of the Campaign Teams
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27 January 2024 14:58 WIB
As regards the partiality of the state apparatus, what stands out most?
The attitude of the President, his brother-in-law. For us, that is a fundamental aspect that has been damaged. Our constitution says, “By the grace of God Almighty and propelled by noble intentions to live as a free nation...” These are two sacred sentences. One is that we want God’s blessing, and secondly, we want to run the country based on noble intentions. My question is, who is most obliged to display these two things? Well, the head of the state. In reality, the head of the state denies both. What he displays is the desire for power that destroys the entire order.
Ridwan Kamil, Chair, Prabowo-Gibran West Java Regional Campaign Team:
We want to win honorably
During the press conference on January 12, the Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team highlighted potential election fraud allegedly committed by Anies and Ganjar, ranging from civil servants’ lack of neutrality to the campaign to attack Prabowo through the Achtung newspaper. What kind of data do you have on that?
I didn’t find any print version of it but it’s all over the social media. The point is that I’m not surprised because there is a group of people who want to win via a negative campaign or smear campaign. Smear campaign includes slander whereas in negative campaigning, (past) scandals are magnified. You can check with TKD (the regional campaign teams). Ours are happy politics, idea-based politics, and creative politics. Winning or losing is another matter.
Has the West Java TKD reported any alleged fraud by the 01 or 03 camps?
Yes. In West Java, a team from a certain ministry went to villages bringing aid packages. And the condition for the disbursement of the aid is the commitment to support one of the presidential candidates to win, but not the No. 2 pair. I heard about it and reported it to raise the alarm.
Todung Mulya Lubis, Deputy for Legal Affairs, Ganjar-Mahfud National Campaign Team:
Indication of more massive cheating
What are the findings about alleged fraud or partiality in the elections this time?
Firstly, the lack of neutrality among officials. This has been widely reported in the media and social media that officials, including village heads and village officials, are directing their residents to vote for candidate pair number 02.
How many have been identified?
We received the reports sporadically. These reports are quite worrying to us. Then, there was a statement from the deputy village minister that the deputy agrarian minister had also directed people to choose the 02 pair. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Well, that’s the pattern. I won’t be surprised if that happens in other places and not every case is reported to us. So, this pattern is our concern, as if it’s becoming some kind of policy executed by everyone.
Second, money politics. It takes many forms. They didn’t hand out cash only, but also rice packages, cooking oil, and some did receive cash in envelopes.
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