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PRESIDENT CHAIRS CABINET MEETING TO EVALUATE ELECTION RESULTS
Jakarta, April 20 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here Monday chaired a limited cabinet meeting to evaluate the April 9, 2009 legislative election results.
"Today we are going to evaluate the legislative election results and to decide what the government has to do for the success of General Election Commission (KPU) in the legislative election," the president said.
After the legislative election, the president held regular limited cabinet meetings with ministers handling political, legal and security affairs to make an evaluations.
"Last week we focused on the government's role in helping the KPU overcome problems affecting permanent voters lists (DPTs) and at the same time listened to governors' commitment to helping the regional KPUs in their effort to update DPTs for the upcoming presidential election," he said.
And on Friday (April 24), the head of state was scheduled to receive reports from the governors and the measures they will take to help the KPU in ballot counts in their respective regions.
The limited cabinet meeting which started at 11 on Monday morning was attended among others by Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Widodo AS, National Police Chief Bambang Hendarso, Attorney General Hendarman Supanji, and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Syamsir Siregar.
In the meeting the president asked the National Police chief and the Attorney General to report on the legal settlement of people's complaints or lawsuits about irregularities in the recent legislative elections.
"We want everything processed well and seriously by the police and Attorney General's Office," the president said.
But the president added that the government was expected to be well responsive to the matters.
"We have to process everything according to law, and to prove that no single case cannot go under legal process," the president said.
The head of state asserted that he had received reports on a number of violations in the legislative elections but the legal domain was the responsibility the law enforcers.
"I trust it to the law enforcers but what I want to hear is their preparedness and things that they have done so far," the president said.
He reiterated his statement last Thursday that the 2009 election was more complicated than the one in 2004 because the ballot count for each legislative candidate was based on the most votes gained and not on sequence number. ***
"Today we are going to evaluate the legislative election results and to decide what the government has to do for the success of General Election Commission (KPU) in the legislative election," the president said.
After the legislative election, the president held regular limited cabinet meetings with ministers handling political, legal and security affairs to make an evaluations.
"Last week we focused on the government's role in helping the KPU overcome problems affecting permanent voters lists (DPTs) and at the same time listened to governors' commitment to helping the regional KPUs in their effort to update DPTs for the upcoming presidential election," he said.
And on Friday (April 24), the head of state was scheduled to receive reports from the governors and the measures they will take to help the KPU in ballot counts in their respective regions.
The limited cabinet meeting which started at 11 on Monday morning was attended among others by Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Widodo AS, National Police Chief Bambang Hendarso, Attorney General Hendarman Supanji, and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Syamsir Siregar.
In the meeting the president asked the National Police chief and the Attorney General to report on the legal settlement of people's complaints or lawsuits about irregularities in the recent legislative elections.
"We want everything processed well and seriously by the police and Attorney General's Office," the president said.
But the president added that the government was expected to be well responsive to the matters.
"We have to process everything according to law, and to prove that no single case cannot go under legal process," the president said.
The head of state asserted that he had received reports on a number of violations in the legislative elections but the legal domain was the responsibility the law enforcers.
"I trust it to the law enforcers but what I want to hear is their preparedness and things that they have done so far," the president said.
He reiterated his statement last Thursday that the 2009 election was more complicated than the one in 2004 because the ballot count for each legislative candidate was based on the most votes gained and not on sequence number. ***
