ICW: Rp3.5bn Worth of Sirekap Fails to Be Reference for Vote Count

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) assessed that the General Elections Commission (KPU) has failed to provide information related to the vote count for the 2024 general election through its Recapitulation Information System or Sirekap.

Egi Primayoga, ICW’s head of the corruption and politics division, said the KPU presented a portal that was not yet ready for public access. “While in fact, the budget funded by public taxes totaling Rp3.5 billion was expended on Sirekap,” he said in a written statement on Friday, February 23, 2024

Egi added that the KPU has also failed to provide information on campaign funds through its Campaign and Campaign Fund Information System or Sikadeka. “The portal does not publish detailed information on the receipt and expenditure of campaign funds,” he said.

He emphasized that it is crucial to have a detailed and transparent reporting mechanism to identify and prevent illegal funds and other non-compliant donations. The systems should allow the public to actively participate in monitoring the flow of funds used during the campaign.

“The closure of information on campaign funds has the potential to be a precursor to corrupt practices in the future,” Egi said.

The Sirekap serves as a tool used by polling workers or KPPS to upload the photo of the actual election results documents, C-1 Forms, after the votes are counted at the polling station or TPS. The data is then converted by the sub-district election committee (PPK) and displayed on the KPU’s official page pemilu2024.kpu.go.id as the preliminary vote count results.

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