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Agus-Sylviana team launches mobile app for reporting election fraud
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Upbeat — Jakarta gubernatorial candidate Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (left) conveys his mission and vision during a candidate debate in Jakarta on Jan. 27. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak A.)
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he campaign team of Jakarta gubernatorial candidate pair Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono and Sylviana Murni has launched a mobile application that enables residents to report suspected fraud during the campaign period and on voting day on Feb. 15.
Agus said on Tuesday that the mobile app, Aplikasi Jaga Agus-Sylvi (Application to safeguard Agus-Sylvi), had been launched last week and through it, people could report any type of suspected fraud.
Agus further said his team had received several reports from supporters on the ground, including on “phantom voters”, or people who were not eligible to vote in a particular electoral district but cast their votes there using means such as fake identity cards.
Agus did not elaborate further on the reports.
“We are grateful that since the app was launched, we have received many reports, which we will forward to the KPU Jakarta [Jakarta General Elections Commission] and Bawaslu [Elections Supervisory Agency],” Agus said after a campaign event for young people in Central Jakarta.
He encouraged people to watch out for potential fraud in the election.
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which backs the Anies Baswedan-Sandiaga Uno candidate pair, previously warned supporters about foreigners potentially being deployed to vote for particular candidates.
When campaigning for the pair over the weekend, PKS deputy advisory chairman Hidayat Nurwahid encouraged voters to observe their surroundings on voting day and to anticipate the possibility of foreigners casting votes illegally.
Speaking to The Jakarta Post recently, Bawaslu’s Jakarta chair Mimah Susanti said her agency had not yet found any evidence to prove that so-called phantom voters existed. (ebf)
