KPU must regulate media campaigning

KPU must regulate media campaigning

JAKARTA: Independent media watchdogs called on the General
Elections Commission (KPU) on Sunday to immediately draw up a
clear-cut regulation that would sanction campaigning in the media
ahead of the Sept. 20 election runoff.

The Institute for the Study of the Free Flow of Information
(ISAI) and the Media Coalition for Free and Fair Elections said
that the absence or tardy formulation of such a regulation would
cause a serious problem to the media.

"Ads for the election runoff must have been prepared by the
candidates' campaign teams three or four months before. However,
the KPU has yet to issue the campaign regulation," Agus Sudibyo
of ISAI said in a meeting with members of the General Elections
Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu). -- JP