Civil servants flout rules to join campaign teams
Civil servants flout rules to join campaign teams
Hasrul, Kendari
The Southeast Sulawesi General Elections Commission (KPUD) has
rejected several campaign teams proposed to back presidential
candidates as they include civil servants, such as the deputy
mayor of Kendari and other senior officials.
"Only three teams submitted lists of their members. We
returned them because the proposed names were not in accordance
with existing conditions," KPUD chairman Kaimuddin Haris said on
Thursday.
The campaign teams in question would support candidates
Megawati Soekarnoputri and Hasyim Muzadi, Wiranto and Solahuddin
Wahid, and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla.
Under Decree No. 35/2004 issued by the General Elections
Commission (KPU) and Circular No. SE/04/M.PAN/03/2004, by the
administrative reforms minister, civil servants are banned from
involvement in presidential campaigning.
"So, the ban on the involvement of civil servants, including
police and military officers, has clearly been regulated. But,
almost all the presidential campaign teams defiantly included
their names," Kaimuddin said in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi.
The campaign team for the Wiranto-Solahuddin pair included
deputy mayor of Kendari Andi Muzakkir Mustafa and other local
senior officials.
Likewise, other civil servants in Kendari were also nominated
for campaign teams for Susilo and Kalla, and Megawati and Hasyim.
Among the names put forward were Ayub Padangarang, Kanna,
Idrus Mufty and Aminah Razak Porosi -- all lecturers of the law
faculty of Haluoleo University.
Zainal Abidin, spokesman for Susilo's Kendari campaign team,
admitted several civil servants were included as they had
voluntarily registered, despite the rules.
However, Zainal said the ban on civil servants' involvement
should be regulated in more detail.
He said his team had not been informed by the KPUD of the
outcome of its proposal.
Similarly, Wiranto's Kendari campaign team spokesman Fikri
Yunus said his side had not been officially notified that the
KPUD had rejected its proposed team.
Fikri and Zainal said they would restructure their teams to
comply with the regulations.