Election monitoring

Election monitoring

In reference to a Jan. 7, 1999's news story in The Jakarta
Post under the headline "Universities band together to form poll
watchdog," the final part of which refers Dr. T. Mulya Lubis as "a
founder of the Independent Election Monitoring Committee," allow
me to give the following response:

First, Mr. T. Mulya Lubis did not take part in the
establishment of the Independent Committee for Election
Monitoring (KIPP Indonesia) in March 1996. In the repressive
political situation at the time, KIPP Indonesia was set up by 40
activists, non-governmental organizations, student leaders,
academics, lawyers and community figureheads such as Adnan Buyung
Nasution, Nurcholish Madjid, Goenawan Mohamad, Mulyana W.
Kusumah, Permadi and others.

Mr. T. Mulya Lubis was nominated as a member of the National
Council of KIPP Indonesia in the plenary meeting of the presidium
of KIPP Indonesia in October 1998, but the nomination was dropped
so as not to conflict with his position as a UNFRP coordinator.

Second, KIPP Indonesia welcomes the recent establishment of
private election monitoring institutions. In a relatively open
political climate, the role of such institutions are important in
developing democracy.

STANDARKIAA

Network Presidium

LEOPOLD SUDARYONO

Internal Presidium

KIPP Indonesia