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Makassar conducive as Constitutional Court reads verdict
The situation in South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi has remained normal during the reading out of the ruling by the Constitutional Court on the 2014 presidential election dispute filed by losing presidential candidate pair Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa on Thursday
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he situation in South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi has remained normal during the reading out of the ruling by the Constitutional Court on the 2014 presidential election dispute filed by losing presidential candidate pair Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa on Thursday. At 5 p.m. local time, local residents in the two provinces continued to go about their daily activities.
Prabowo-Hatta supporters identifying themselves as the Indonesia Student and Youth (Pena) rallied outside the South Sulawesi General Elections Commission (KPUD) office in Makassar. The rally, conducted by only about 10 people, lasted no longer than an hour. During the rally, the Prabowo-Hatta supporters staged an oration and theatrical performance.
Rumors circulating a day earlier said that Prabowo-Hatta supporters in Makassar, South Sulawesi, would hold a mass rally at the province's KPUD and Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) offices.
South Sulawesi Police spokesperson Sr.Comr.Endi Sutendi said the police were on alert and had deployed officers to a number of areas considered prone to security disturbances even though the situation in the two provinces had remained conducive.
'We have anticipated possible security disturbances and prepared two-thirds of our total personnel. In Makassar, we have deployed 2,500 personnel,' said Endi.
Among locations given extra security are the Bawaslu and KPUD South Sulawesi offices and the family home of vice president-elect Jusuf Kalla. (ebf)
