150 violations found in one week

150 violations found in one week

SEMARANG: An official of the Central Java Election Supervisory
Committee (Panwasda) revealed that Panwasda had discovered 150
poll violations in Central Java province in the first week of the
campaign period.

Nur Hidayat Sardini, the chairman of Panwasda, said on Friday
that the violations could be listed under 10 categories,
including: violations of regulations on convoys, the misuse of
government facilities, campaigns outside of the scheduled time
frame, money politics and traffic violations.

Poll violations were mostly committed by the Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), followed by Golkar Party,
the United Development Party (PPP), the National Mandate Party
(PAN) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

"Of all the 24 political parties, the Social Democratic Labor
Party (PBSD) is the only one that has not broken the law on
elections. But this makes sense, because this party never
campaigns," said Ansori, another official of Semarang's Panwaslu.
-- JP