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‘It’s difficult to break down’: Prabowo camp reports alleged fraud based on screenshots, viral videos
The KPU reported 244 findings related to errors on its website as of May 6. Of the 244, 68 were based on public complaints while 176 were based on KPU monitoring.
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The great wait: A TV cameraman and a reporter work in front of a large screen showing the ongoing results of 2019 election vote count, which uses the vote count information system (situng) at the General Elections Commission (KPU) headquarters in Jakarta on Sunday. The vote count is being carried out at the subdistrict, district, city, provincial and then national levels from April 25 to May 23. (The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
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he Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has begun a hearing into alleged data errors that have been reported as fraud by the campaign team of former presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Sandiaga Uno.
The hearing was the Bawaslu's response to a complaint Prabowo's team filed on Friday, claiming that 73,000 data entry errors the General Elections Commission (KPU) published of its ongoing vote tally in the real count system (situng) constituted fraud. The team also demanded Bawaslu to stop publishing the count on the internet.
KPU legal division member Setya Indra Arifin said there were indeed errors on the KPU website, but the number was not as high as 73,000.
The KPU reported 244 findings related to errors on its website as of May 6. Of the 244, 68 were based on public complaints while 176 were based on KPU monitoring.
"Two hundred and eighteen of them have been resolved, while there are still 26 in the correcting process," Setya said in the sidelines of the hearing on Wednesday. "Again, the mistakes are purely in the scanning and data verification process. They were human errors."
The Prabowo team’s law division spokesperson, Sahroni, said the 73,000 cases submitted to the Bawaslu were only “presumptions”, which means they are only based on reports and not verified.
“Seventy-three thousand faults were our presumptions; 244 have been proven and corrected,” Sahroni claimed, despite that the KPU corrections were not only made based on reports from the Prabowo camp.
