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Wed, 04/22/2009 - 21:39
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POLICE DENY HAVING REJECTED BAWASLU COMPLAINT ABOUT KPU
Jakarta, April 22 (ANTARA) - The police have denied reports that they had rejected a complaint from the General Elections Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) about rule violations committed by the General Elections Commission (KPU).
The party that had rejected the Bawaslu complaint was not the police but the Sentra Gakkumdu (integrated law enforcing center), National Police Headquarters spokesman Inspector General Abubakar Nataprawira said here Wednesday.
Sentra Gakkumdu was established at district, city, provincial and central levels to determine if elections violations were criminal cases or not. Its members come from Bawaslu, Panwaslu (elections supervisory committee), the public prosecutor's office and the police.
Abubakar said "the report from Bawaslu did not reach the police because the Sentra Gakkumdu had decided that the case was not criminal but related to state administration laws."
He said if Sentra Gakkumdu stated that the case had to be put under criminal investigation could Bawaslu/Panwaslu report it to the police.
He said Sentra Gakkumdu had considered the General Elections Commission's (KPU) letter validating the exchanged ballot papers not criminal because it was signed by KPU chief as a state official.
Moreover, according to rules, those entitled to report elections violations are only individual citizen, political parties participating in the election and monitoring institutes.
"In this case Bawaslu did not receive reports from the three but made the report by itself," he said.
The KPU earlier distributed a circular regarding voting and vote counting problems from the legislative elections on April 9.
The letter was produced following cases of ballots papers that had been exchanged in several regions.
Regarding the exchanged ballot papers, the KPU stated that if the ballots had been used they could be declared valid and countable.
The KPU later issued another circular following the distribution of the circular stating that ballots that had been exchanged and used were declared valid if approved by witnesses from political parties and elections monitoring workers.
Following the issuance of the two circulars Bawaslu suspected that KPU had violated the elections law.
The party that had rejected the Bawaslu complaint was not the police but the Sentra Gakkumdu (integrated law enforcing center), National Police Headquarters spokesman Inspector General Abubakar Nataprawira said here Wednesday.
Sentra Gakkumdu was established at district, city, provincial and central levels to determine if elections violations were criminal cases or not. Its members come from Bawaslu, Panwaslu (elections supervisory committee), the public prosecutor's office and the police.
Abubakar said "the report from Bawaslu did not reach the police because the Sentra Gakkumdu had decided that the case was not criminal but related to state administration laws."
He said if Sentra Gakkumdu stated that the case had to be put under criminal investigation could Bawaslu/Panwaslu report it to the police.
He said Sentra Gakkumdu had considered the General Elections Commission's (KPU) letter validating the exchanged ballot papers not criminal because it was signed by KPU chief as a state official.
Moreover, according to rules, those entitled to report elections violations are only individual citizen, political parties participating in the election and monitoring institutes.
"In this case Bawaslu did not receive reports from the three but made the report by itself," he said.
The KPU earlier distributed a circular regarding voting and vote counting problems from the legislative elections on April 9.
The letter was produced following cases of ballots papers that had been exchanged in several regions.
Regarding the exchanged ballot papers, the KPU stated that if the ballots had been used they could be declared valid and countable.
The KPU later issued another circular following the distribution of the circular stating that ballots that had been exchanged and used were declared valid if approved by witnesses from political parties and elections monitoring workers.
Following the issuance of the two circulars Bawaslu suspected that KPU had violated the elections law.
