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No large campaign gatherings allowed during cooling-off period, Bawaslu warns
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Thousands flock to the Gue Dua Concert, a major campaign event of the incumbent Jakartan gubernatorial ticket of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saiful Hidayat. The concert on Feb. 4 in Senayan, Central Jakarta, featured dozens of top musicians, including rock band Slank. (JP/Nurul Fitri Ramadhani)
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he Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) Jakarta has warned the camps of all three gubernatorial tickets not to organize campaign events involving large numbers of people during the cooling-off period from Feb. 12 to 14.
The coordinator of Bawaslu Jakarta’s enforcement division, Muhammad Jufri, has also urged the police not to allow events or rallies that carried messages related to the Feb. 15 election.
“We have hired monitoring officials at all levels, from districts and subdistricts down to polling stations. We have also partnered with universities and other monitoring organizations,” Jufri said on Saturday as quoted by kompas.com.
(Read also: Mass campaign rallies have little impact on boosting support: Researcher)
The campaign period has been underway since Oct. 28 last year.
All three tickets have been intensifying their campaigns leading up to the last campaigning day of Feb. 11. (bbs)
