Poll watchdogs find infiltrators<\/p>\n
UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: Nongovernment election
\nmonitoring bodies here announced on Saturday that 20 activists of
\nparties contesting the elections had joined their organizations
\nfor a spying mission.<\/p>\n
The provincial branch's coordinator of the University Network
\nfor Free and Fair Elections (Unfrel), M. Darwis, told a meeting
\nwith the provincial election supervisory committee and poll
\nmonitoring team sent by the European Union that the infiltrators
\nhad tried to disrupt monitoring activities conducted by three
\nnongovernment poll watchdogs here.<\/p>\n
Darwis identified the spies as supporters of the Golkar Party,
\nthe Justice and Unity Party, the Crescent Star Party, the
\nIndonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, the United Development
\nParty and the Justice Party.<\/p>\n
He said Unfrel, the Independent Election Monitoring Committee
\n(KIPP) and the Rectors' Forum had fired the 20 fake volunteers
\nand would report the incident to police.<\/p>\n
\"We are not certain whether the political parties were behind
\nthis masquerade. The fact is we have found their membership
\ncards,\" Darwis told the meeting.<\/p>\n
Darwis said he detected the presence of infiltrators after
\nseeing them provoke fellow poll monitoring volunteers to lodge
\nprotests either in trainings or meetings.<\/p>\n
The Rectors' Forum's coordinator, Amran Razak, said the party
\nactivists had raised his eyebrows for trying to ask for details
\nof his organization's working system and to look for as many
\norganizational mistakes as possible. (27)<\/p>",
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