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Minister’s peddling free cooking oil for votes slammed
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Newly installed Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan visits Klender traditional market in East Jakarta on June 22 to check the prices of basic commodities, especially cooking oil.
(Courtesy of /Trade Ministry)
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ritics have called for an investigation into alleged campaign violation after Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan and National Mandate Party (PAN) distributed free cooking oil in Lampung while promoting his daughter -- who is running for the 2024 local legislative election.
In a video clip circulating on social media, Zulkifli is seen asking recipients of the 2-liter packages of Minyakita to vote for his daughter. The minister also hints that he would continue to hold similar charity programs to woo voter support for his daughter.
The minister distributed free cooking oil during a PAN’s community-assistance program in the province’s capital of Bandarlampung on Saturday. Zulkifli’s eldest daughter, Futri Zulya Savitri, is a political debutante who is representing PAN’s Lampung electoral district.
A political analyst from the Indonesian Civilized Circle (Lima), Ray Rangkuti, is calling the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) to investigate the incident.
“Since this involves an invitation [to vote for a certain candidate] related to an election, Bawaslu needs to scrutinize whether there is any violation [in the incident],” Ray said.
The analyst said that the Bawaslu should investigate whether there was a veiled campaigning or campaigning-outside-designated-period violation.
“Secondly, whether there was vote-buying,” he said.
