PKS, PPP protest results<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The Election Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu) received on
\nWednesday its first complaint about poll results from the
\nProsperous Justice Party (PKS), which lashed out at the General
\nElections Commission (KPU) for failing to ensure a fair and
\ntransparent ballot count.<\/p>\n
PKS campaign manager Muhammad Razikun told The Jakarta Post
\nhis party had lost an estimated 5 percent of the vote due to
\nunfair treatment by the KPU during the count.<\/p>\n
"It (the unfairness) occurred in many polling stations across
\nthe country and we are continuing to list it," he said after a
\nmeeting with Panwaslu chairman Komaruddin Hidayat and committee
\nmembers Topo Santoso and Siti Noordjannah Djohantini.<\/p>\n
Accompanied by colleagues, Razikun handed over documents
\ncontaining details and evidence of unfair counting that, he
\nalleged, had cost his party some votes in several parts of the
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
The PKS list included an incident in Johar Baru subdistrict,
\nCentral Jakarta, where some 1,000 ballot papers with perforations
\nfor the PKS inexplicably went missing, Razikun said.<\/p>\n
Lost votes were also reported in Lampung, where the district
\npoll committee (PPK) recorded only 88 of 663 votes the party
\nclaimed to have received.<\/p>\n
"We have evidence and witnesses, both from the PKS and
\nmonitors," Razikun said.<\/p>\n
Separately, the United Development Party (PPP) asked the KPU
\nto do a recount, because many voters mistakenly perforated both
\npages of the ballot paper for the election of House of
\nRepresentatives members.<\/p>\n
"The mistake is a great loss to us, because the ballot papers
\nwere considered invalid," PPP deputy chairman Ali Marwan Hanan,
\ntold a media conference.<\/p>\n
It also asked the KPU to stop reporting the continuing ballot
\ncounting until all delayed elections and poll reruns in the
\ncountry had been completed.<\/p>\n
"The ongoing tabulation could influence people who have not
\nyet voted, and could persuade them to vote for parties that are
\nin the lead," he said.<\/p>\n
Delayed elections or poll reruns must be held by April 9.<\/p>\n
In his response, Komaruddin asked all political parties to
\ndeploy their members to witness manual ballot counts before the
\nresults were sent to Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The KPU will announce the election results based on a manual
\ncount.<\/p>\n
Manipulation of election result data carries a maximum penalty
\nof three years' imprisonment and a Rp 1 billion fine, under the
\nlaw on elections.<\/p>\n
In Bandung, a PPP legislative candidate, Kurdi Moekri, filed a
\nprotest with the West Java regional KPU because his name did not
\nappear in the computerized tabulation of ballots.<\/p>\n
Kurdi's name had been replaced by that of Burhanuddin
\nSomawinata, a PPP legislative candidate for a different electoral
\ndistrict.<\/p>\n
Sulut Toar Palilingan, chairman of the North Sulawesi election
\nsupervisory committee, said the election in the province was
\n"full of unfairness" and demanded a rerun because the provincial
\nKPU banned committee members from witnessing the count.<\/p>\n
Separately, chief of the 23-strong Japanese government
\nobservation mission Takao Kawakami said in Jakarta his team noted
\nwith regret that voting on April 5 failed to take place in some
\nareas for technical or security reasons.<\/p>\n
"We fervently hope the remaining election process, including
\nvoting and counting in areas where voting and counting was
\npostponed, and nationwide tabulation, will be carried out in a
\nfair and faithful manner," he said at a media briefing on
\nWednesday.<\/p>\n
However, he stressed that the voting and counting at each of
\n150 polling stations in six big cities the mission had visited
\nwas "free and fair".<\/p>",
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