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Bawaslu flags 1,200 violations during 2024 election
A Bawaslu commissioner said on Wednesday that the agency had discovered 1,200 violations during the 2024 general election, but expected the remainder of the process to be free of any breaches.
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A woman votes on Feb. 14, 2024 at a polling station in South Tangerang, Banten. (Reuters/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) recorded 1,200 violations that had been committed during the 2024 general election, a commissioner said on Wednesday, with ethics breaches being the most common followed by partiality among civil servants.
"Many ethics violations by organizers were found and reported, along with the issue of neutrality among civil servants in multiple provinces [...]," Bawaslu commissioner for prevention, public participation and public relations Lolly Suhenty said on Wednesday, as quoted by state-owned news agency Antara.
She added that breaches of civil service neutrality were reportedly committed upon an individual’s personal initiative or due to external conditioning.
Lolly expected the remainder of the election process would be unmarked by any other violations.
“We will continue to heighten supervision until the 2024 general election has [concluded],” she added.
Lolly also encouraged the public to report any suspicions over possible violations to the Bawaslu.
"We conduct prevention and ascertain whether an incident constitutes a violation or not, simultaneously undertaking enforcement [measures]," she said.
In addition recording election violations, the Bawaslu also mapped disruption risk at polling stations (TPS).
The most common form of disruption to occur at TPS was a voter that was on the final voter list (DPT) but did not meet the formal requirements, with Bawaslu recording such instances at 125,224 TPS, according to news portal Katadata.co.id.
Bawaslu has several categories of ineligible voters, such as individuals who are unknown, deceased, members of the Indonesian Military (TNI) or the National Police, nonresidents and underage, as well as people with memory loss and duplicate entries.
Another common form of disruption the Bawaslu found were people who appeared on the additional voter list (DPTb) turning up at 119,796 TPS.
People on the DPTb are eligible to vote but are not included on the DPT, and so are bound to certain restrictions on where, when and how they cast their ballots.
Data from the General Elections Committee (KPU) show that a total of 823,000 TPS were set up for the 2024 general election, consisting of 820,161 polling stations in the country and 3,059 overseas polling stations.
A woman votes on Feb. 14, 2024 at a polling station in South Tangerang, Banten. The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has found 1,200 violations during the 2024 general election, with ethics breaches the most common type.
