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KPU Jakarta returns computers to city administration
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he Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) has decided to return desktops and laptops granted by the Jakarta administration to avoid its neutrality coming under question in the 2017 election.
“To remain neutral as the organizer of the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election, we have decided to return 25 desktops and 21 laptops from the administration,” said the head of KPU Jakarta’s legal, technical and public relations affairs manager, Sahruni, in a statement on Friday.
She denied reports that the commission had accepted 400 laptops from private companies that wanted the incumbent to win.
According to the prevailing law, the KPU Jakarta has a right to ask the administration for facilities to support the staging of the election and Sahruni said that she therefore sent a proposal to the Jakarta administration.
However, the commission decided to return the computers to avoid suspicion about its neutrality in the Feb. 15 election.
The commission will use existing facilities and rent computers from a third party, Sahruni added. “We will invite independent IT experts to check the rented computers,” she said.
Previously, Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama explained that the computers had been purchased by PT Sampoerna Land in compensation for the expansion of the floor area ratio (KLB) for one of its projects in the capital. (bbn)
