With the Feb. 14 general election date quickly closing in, public movements are increasingly promoting the use of whistleblowing platforms dedicated to monitoring campaigning and election processes, amid a rising political temperature and growing fears of possible foul play.

Two online platforms Jaga Suara 2024 and Jaga Suaramu, both loosely translated as protect your voice, have been launched in the past week by civil groups, adding to the list of public platforms released this year dedicated to minimizing the risks of election fraud.

Concerns about the fairness of the election process and the neutrality of the state apparatus have only become more apparent less than a month before the voting day – not only among voters and activists, but also among the presidential candidates – all three of which have admitted to observing potential violations.

On Tuesday, a network of civil groups gathered in South Jakarta to launch Jaga Suara 2024, a mobile application that invites voters to monitor the ballot counts at polling stations across the country on Feb. 14.

The app allows people to take pictures of C1 vote tally reports, which record the vote count of each polling station, and submit them to Jaga Suara 2024’s own database, which will compare the images with data from the General Elections Commission (KPU).

“We must ensure that there are no manipulations, changes or falsifications in the polling stations,” said Hadar Nafis Gumay, executive director of Network for Democracy and Electoral Integrity (Netgrit), one of the project initiators.

“It’s essentially what the election organizers will be doing, but we still need to supervise them to ensure that they won’t commit any deviations.”

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