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KPU to keep on counting despite errors
KPU Commissioner Wahyu Setiawan said despite the ruling and its short deadline for a follow-up, the KPU would not delay the result announcement on May 22.
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The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) building in Jakarta (Wikimedia Commons/musnahterinjak)
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he Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) concluded on Thursday that the General Elections Commission (KPU) committed administrative violations in relation to the operation of its online ballot tabulation and with regard to pollsters.
Bawaslu, which conducted the examination after a report lodged by the Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno camp, said that procedural violations had led to input errors on the tabulation website, also known as Situng.
Bawaslu head Abhan said, however, that the election watchdog would not order the KPU to stop operating Situng, but to fix the procedures instead.
“In operating Situng, the KPU must pay close attention to accuracy in entering data so that it won’t cause disputes,” Abhan said.
KPU Commissioner Wahyu Setiawan said despite the ruling and its short deadline for a follow-up, the KPU would not delay the result announcement on May 22.
Article 462 of the 2017 Elections Law stipulates that the central, provincial and regency or city election commissions must abide by the Bawaslu ruling no later than three days after its delivery.
“The Situng system will not stop, and the official nationwide calculation will keep going according to plan,” Wahyu told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
