Parties told to submit bank accounts<\/p>\n
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Political parties eligible for next year's elections must submit
\ndetails of their campaign fund bank accounts to the National
\nElections Commissions (KPU) not later than seven days after they
\nhave been declared eligible to participate, a KPU member has
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
KPU deputy chairman Ramlan Surbakti also said on Monday that
\nall political parties would have to submit their annual financial
\nstatements detailing their revenue and expenditure since their
\nestablishment until they were declared legitimate political
\nparties by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.<\/p>\n
\"All of these reports must be audited by independent auditors
\nwho are not linked to any political parties or vested interests,\"
\nsaid Ramlan.<\/p>\n
He also said that parties, including those not eligible for to
\nrun in the elections, would have to submit financial statements
\non their income and expenditure from the moment they were
\ndeclared legitimate parties until Dec. 31, 2003.<\/p>\n
The KPU is expected to announce on Tuesday the names of the
\npolitical parties that have been cleared to contest the 2004
\nelections.<\/p>\n
The country is due to hold legislative elections and its first
\never direct presidential election next year.<\/p>\n
As of Monday, at least 21 of the 40 political parties
\nundergoing factual verification had failed to meet the
\nrequirement of having branch offices in at least two-thirds, or
\n21, of the country's 30 provinces. KPU members, however,
\nrefrained from saying on Monday from saying that these political
\nparties would be barred from next year's legislative elections.<\/p>\n
However, KPU member Mulyana W. Kusuma, who heads the party
\nverification team, suggested that next year's elections would be
\nparticipated in by less parties than contested the 1999
\nelections. The 1999 general election was contested by 48 parties.<\/p>\n
\"Aside from the six parties which passed the electoral
\nthreshold in the 1999 election, maybe about 15 or so others will
\nbe able to meet all the requirements,\" he said in his office.<\/p>\n
Only six parties are assured of places in next year's
\nelections as they have met the two percent electoral threshold in
\nthe 1999 election. They are the Indonesian Democratic Party of
\nStruggle (PDI Perjuangan), Golkar, the United Development Party
\n(PPP), the National Awakening Party (PKB), the National Mandate
\nParty (PAN), and the Crescent Star Party (PBB).<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the KPU is slated to start naming the political
\nparties that will be allowed to participate in next year's
\nelection. Since not all provinces have submitted their
\nverification reports, the KPU will announce the parties eligible
\nto contest the 2004 elections in stages, between Dec. 2 and Dec.
\n7.<\/p>\n
\"We will name those which have passed the electoral threshold,
\nthose which have met the requirements to contest the elections
\nand those which have failed to do so,\" Mulyana said.<\/p>\n
Factual verification is the final test for political parties
\nbidding to contest the 2004 elections, after the earlier
\nadministrative screening conducted by the KPU last month.<\/p>\n
During factual verification process, the KPU determines the
\nnumber of provincial chapters to be examined based on the
\ndocumentation the party in question has submitted to the
\ncommission.<\/p>\n
Law No. 12\/2003 on general elections states that a political
\nparty can contest elections if its existence is recognized by the
\nMinistry of Justice and Human Rights and it has a local executive
\nboard in at least two-thirds of the country's 30 provinces.<\/p>",
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