The tabulation of votes for the 2024 general election started on Wednesday morning amid doubts about the reliability of election data and an ethics probe into the conduct of General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Hasyim Asy’ari and other commissioners.

Two weeks after voting concluded in the country’s largest-ever single-day election, the KPU started to tally and verify the votes at the national level. It put overseas votes at the top of the agenda, drawn from 36 foreign election committees (PPLN).

The Wednesday program, however, was suspended after Hasyim announced that all KPU commissioners had been summoned by the Elections Organization Ethics Council (DKPP) at 9 a.m. over an investigation into alleged data leaks from the 2024 voter roll.

The complaint, filed with the DKPP by a person identified as Rico Nufiansyah Ali, alleges that unaccountable and unprofessional actions by the KPK led to breaches of personal data stored in the 2024 permanent voter list.

Despite the summons, the DKPP allowed Hasyim to open the Wednesday morning plenary session for the vote tabulation before the commissioners headed to the ethics hearing.

“We have informed the DKPP leadership that we’ll first open the plenary,” Hasyim said at the beginning of the meeting.

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