Monday, 23 December 2024 – 22:04 WIB
Chairman of Bawaslu RI Rahmat Bagja (second left) at a press conference for the National Consolidation of Women Election Supervisors in Badung, Bali, Sunday (22/12/2024). (ANTARA/Fath Putra Mulya).
jpnn.com – JAKARTA – Chairman of the Indonesian General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) Rahmat Bagja does not agree with the talk of his institution’s status being changed to ad hoc.
The reason is, changing status will have an impact on the performance of the institution.
Bagja believes that election governance in Indonesia will improve if Bawaslu’s institutional status remains permanent.
“We think that with this constancy, with the permanence of election organizers, for us, the electoral justice system, the electoral justice system will get better and election governance will also get better with this constancy,” said Bagja in his statement, Monday (23/12 ).
According to him, the discourse on changing the status of election management institutions, the KPU and Bawaslu, to ad hoc institutions will actually give rise to new problems.
“By making it ad hoc, in our opinion, it will become another problem regarding money politics. In fact, it will become a problem for training and so on, and also problems for district/city KPU friends who also have secretariats,” he said.
Apart from that, with this permanent institutional status, Bawaslu can apply the principle of sustainable and tiered meritocracy for its members.
In this case, an election supervisor who has a career as a sub-district supervisory committee (panwascam) can become a member of the central Bawaslu.
Bawaslu Chairman Rahmat Bagja does not agree with the status of his institution being changed to an ad hoc institution, aka non-permanent.
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