PKS, PPP protest results
PKS, PPP protest results
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Election Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu) received on
Wednesday its first complaint about poll results from the
Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which lashed out at the General
Elections Commission (KPU) for failing to ensure a fair and
transparent ballot count.
PKS campaign manager Muhammad Razikun told The Jakarta Post
his party had lost an estimated 5 percent of the vote due to
unfair treatment by the KPU during the count.
"It (the unfairness) occurred in many polling stations across
the country and we are continuing to list it," he said after a
meeting with Panwaslu chairman Komaruddin Hidayat and committee
members Topo Santoso and Siti Noordjannah Djohantini.
Accompanied by colleagues, Razikun handed over documents
containing details and evidence of unfair counting that, he
alleged, had cost his party some votes in several parts of the
country.
The PKS list included an incident in Johar Baru subdistrict,
Central Jakarta, where some 1,000 ballot papers with perforations
for the PKS inexplicably went missing, Razikun said.
Lost votes were also reported in Lampung, where the district
poll committee (PPK) recorded only 88 of 663 votes the party
claimed to have received.
"We have evidence and witnesses, both from the PKS and
monitors," Razikun said.
Separately, the United Development Party (PPP) asked the KPU
to do a recount, because many voters mistakenly perforated both
pages of the ballot paper for the election of House of
Representatives members.
"The mistake is a great loss to us, because the ballot papers
were considered invalid," PPP deputy chairman Ali Marwan Hanan,
told a media conference.
It also asked the KPU to stop reporting the continuing ballot
counting until all delayed elections and poll reruns in the
country had been completed.
"The ongoing tabulation could influence people who have not
yet voted, and could persuade them to vote for parties that are
in the lead," he said.
Delayed elections or poll reruns must be held by April 9.
In his response, Komaruddin asked all political parties to
deploy their members to witness manual ballot counts before the
results were sent to Jakarta.
The KPU will announce the election results based on a manual
count.
Manipulation of election result data carries a maximum penalty
of three years' imprisonment and a Rp 1 billion fine, under the
law on elections.
In Bandung, a PPP legislative candidate, Kurdi Moekri, filed a
protest with the West Java regional KPU because his name did not
appear in the computerized tabulation of ballots.
Kurdi's name had been replaced by that of Burhanuddin
Somawinata, a PPP legislative candidate for a different electoral
district.
Sulut Toar Palilingan, chairman of the North Sulawesi election
supervisory committee, said the election in the province was
"full of unfairness" and demanded a rerun because the provincial
KPU banned committee members from witnessing the count.
Separately, chief of the 23-strong Japanese government
observation mission Takao Kawakami said in Jakarta his team noted
with regret that voting on April 5 failed to take place in some
areas for technical or security reasons.
"We fervently hope the remaining election process, including
voting and counting in areas where voting and counting was
postponed, and nationwide tabulation, will be carried out in a
fair and faithful manner," he said at a media briefing on
Wednesday.
However, he stressed that the voting and counting at each of
150 polling stations in six big cities the mission had visited
was "free and fair".
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Election Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu) received on
Wednesday its first complaint about poll results from the
Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which lashed out at the General
Elections Commission (KPU) for failing to ensure a fair and
transparent ballot count.
PKS campaign manager Muhammad Razikun told The Jakarta Post
his party had lost an estimated 5 percent of the vote due to
unfair treatment by the KPU during the count.
"It (the unfairness) occurred in many polling stations across
the country and we are continuing to list it," he said after a
meeting with Panwaslu chairman Komaruddin Hidayat and committee
members Topo Santoso and Siti Noordjannah Djohantini.
Accompanied by colleagues, Razikun handed over documents
containing details and evidence of unfair counting that, he
alleged, had cost his party some votes in several parts of the
country.
The PKS list included an incident in Johar Baru subdistrict,
Central Jakarta, where some 1,000 ballot papers with perforations
for the PKS inexplicably went missing, Razikun said.
Lost votes were also reported in Lampung, where the district
poll committee (PPK) recorded only 88 of 663 votes the party
claimed to have received.
"We have evidence and witnesses, both from the PKS and
monitors," Razikun said.
Separately, the United Development Party (PPP) asked the KPU
to do a recount, because many voters mistakenly perforated both
pages of the ballot paper for the election of House of
Representatives members.
"The mistake is a great loss to us, because the ballot papers
were considered invalid," PPP deputy chairman Ali Marwan Hanan,
told a media conference.
It also asked the KPU to stop reporting the continuing ballot
counting until all delayed elections and poll reruns in the
country had been completed.
"The ongoing tabulation could influence people who have not
yet voted, and could persuade them to vote for parties that are
in the lead," he said.
Delayed elections or poll reruns must be held by April 9.
In his response, Komaruddin asked all political parties to
deploy their members to witness manual ballot counts before the
results were sent to Jakarta.
The KPU will announce the election results based on a manual
count.
Manipulation of election result data carries a maximum penalty
of three years' imprisonment and a Rp 1 billion fine, under the
law on elections.
In Bandung, a PPP legislative candidate, Kurdi Moekri, filed a
protest with the West Java regional KPU because his name did not
appear in the computerized tabulation of ballots.
Kurdi's name had been replaced by that of Burhanuddin
Somawinata, a PPP legislative candidate for a different electoral
district.
Sulut Toar Palilingan, chairman of the North Sulawesi election
supervisory committee, said the election in the province was
"full of unfairness" and demanded a rerun because the provincial
KPU banned committee members from witnessing the count.
Separately, chief of the 23-strong Japanese government
observation mission Takao Kawakami said in Jakarta his team noted
with regret that voting on April 5 failed to take place in some
areas for technical or security reasons.
"We fervently hope the remaining election process, including
voting and counting in areas where voting and counting was
postponed, and nationwide tabulation, will be carried out in a
fair and faithful manner," he said at a media briefing on
Wednesday.
However, he stressed that the voting and counting at each of
150 polling stations in six big cities the mission had visited
was "free and fair".