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Public, political parties monitor KPU’s real count
While the General Elections Commission (KPU) is counting the C1 vote tally forms from polling stations across the country, the public and political parties have launched initiatives to participate in monitoring the process
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span>While the General Elections Commission (KPU) is counting the C1 vote tally forms from polling stations across the country, the public and political parties have launched initiatives to participate in monitoring the process.
Among the established websites available for the public to participate in the process is kawalpemilu.org, onto which citizens can upload photos of actual C1 forms that record the final vote count of each polling station, usually from the ones near their residences.
The website was established by a community of volunteers who work with an election watchdog, the Network for Democracy and Electoral Integrity (Netgrit).
Netgrit cofounder Ferry Kurnia Rizkiyansyah said the website provided a platform to involve citizens and help minimize election fraud. As of Saturday evening, the website recorded that the Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Ma’ruf Amin ticket had garnered 6,599,137 votes while contenders Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno had gained 6,455,162. The results, however, are not final yet.
“We are working to monitor the election process while the KPU is processing the real count. In the end, we hope the public will have no doubt [over the KPU’s manual counting],” Ferry said on Saturday.
He emphasized that the public should not be confused by kawalpemilu.org’s data collection, as well as the quick counts and real counts provided by independent pollsters.
“It means the public is working closely to watch the process, so the KPU should maintain its high integrity,” James said.
A different initiative at ayojagaTPS.com is also available for the public to monitor the KPU’s vote count. Its founder, Mochamad James Falahuddin, said 470,000 users had registered on the website.
James said the website’s latest data showed that Prabowo and Sandi had so far garnered 62.75 percent of nearly 6.4 million votes they collected from 31,000 polling stations, while Jokowi and Ma’ruf had garnered 37.25 percent of the votes.
He said that the data they obtained were based on C1 forms uploaded from polling stations across the country. The users, he said, could only upload C1 forms from their respective polling stations.
“We have collected nearly 6.4 million votes, but we have yet to receive data from Kalimantan, Papua and Sulawesi. We have covered nearly 500 districts and cities overall,” he said.
Political parties in the coalition that endorsed Prabowo are also closely monitoring the vote count.
The National Mandate Party (PAN) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) have deployed teams to monitor the counting of C1 vote tally forms from poll stations across the country to ensure that their votes in the legislative election are not manipulated.
PKS executive Hidayat Nur Wahid claimed his party had secured more votes than the number presented by the independent pollsters.
According to a number of pollsters, the PKS ranked fifth in the legislative election with about 18 percent of votes.
“We just started [our own counting] on Thursday, but from [our observations] so far, I guess the party has got more than that,” Hidayat said, adding that the party would refer to the KPU for the final tally.
PAN, meanwhile, secured about 6.5 percent of votes, down from 7.59 percent in 2014, according to pollsters.
Both PKS and PAN, however, refused to comment on a “real count” conducted by Prabowo’s campaign team, which suggested that the former general and his running mate had gained 62 percent of votes in the presidential race.
PKS senior member Mardani Ali Sera said that his party would not deny the quick count result by the pollsters.
“The PKS trusts the quick count and surveys conducted by the pollsters because they used scientific methods,” Mardani said.
The Prabowo-Sandiaga campaign team claimed on Saturday that it found 1,200 cases of possible election fraud in different regions. It said its advocacy team has reported them to the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) and the KPU.
The team’s communication and media director, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, said they found the cases at various polling stations, during both the voting and the counting. He said the team therefore encouraged the KPU and Bawaslu to take decisive steps accordingly.
“We appreciate the KPU and Bawaslu’s hard work. We believe they are all trustworthy people who uphold their vow to uphold Indonesia’s democracy,” he said.
