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National Scene: Hundreds of violations found by Bawaslu

JAKARTA: The General Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) has received 1,718 reports of poll violations in 92 local elections in 2011“Thirty-three percent of the total reports, or 565 violations, were administrative and had been handed over to the KPU [General Elections Commission] for follow-ups,” Bawaslu chairman Bambang Eka Cahya Widodo said

The Jakarta Post

Wed, December 21, 2011 Published on Dec. 21, 2011 Published on 2011-12-21T10:19:11+07:00

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AKARTA: The General Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) has received 1,718 reports of poll violations in 92 local elections in 2011

“Thirty-three percent of the total reports, or 565 violations, were administrative and had been handed over to the KPU [General Elections Commission] for follow-ups,” Bawaslu chairman Bambang Eka Cahya Widodo said.

Bawaslu also found that 372 poll violations involved criminal acts and had been handed over to the police, Bambang added.

So far, only 13 cases of violations have been investigated and brought to court, Bawaslu said.

Bambang said that 781 reports were not pursued due to lack of evidence.

He said that most violations had involved money politics, voter registration frauds, illegal campaigns, and involvement of civil servants as campaign workers.

“The majority of the violations took place during the campaign period,” Bambang said. “Impartiality of civil servants has also still been common practice,” he added.