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FORTY PCT OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS LOST CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT : WATCHDOG
Jakarta, May 8 (ANTARA) - Some 25 to 40 percent of eligible voters in Indonesia lost their constitutional right in the April 9 legislative elections due to "the state's failures and negligence," the country's human rights watchdog said.
The figure was established based on analyzes of "indisputable findings in the field," the chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), Ifdhal Kasin, said here Friday.
"We present this finding because we realized the seriousness of the failures and negligence of the state in respecting the constitutional right of its citizens in general elections and the scale of complaints and protests of those who lost their constitutional right," in the recent legislative elections, he said.
The complaints and protests were made by people in 10 provinces, 22 districts and 19 villages across the country, he added.
Komnas HAM had arrived at the finding after conducting an investigation into the people's complaints and protests in accordance with Law No 39/1999 on its functions, duties and authority power, he said.
The investigation was carried out by a special team consisting of Komnas HAM members and staffers and three members of the general public.
Kasin said the team's investigation had also identified at least seven specific problems in the organization of the recent legislative elections that had prevented so many people from exercising their voting right.
Among the problems were the chaos in the Home Ministry's population administration system, the absence of an awareness among the state's apparatuses and the election organizers of the state's duty to enable its citizens to exercise their civil rights, the absence of a special policy on a budgeting system for general elections, institutional incompetence in the General Elections Commission (KPU) and the KPU's centralized authority.
Other problems were weaknesses in the organizational capability of the KPU and in the Election Supervisory Body.
The figure was established based on analyzes of "indisputable findings in the field," the chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), Ifdhal Kasin, said here Friday.
"We present this finding because we realized the seriousness of the failures and negligence of the state in respecting the constitutional right of its citizens in general elections and the scale of complaints and protests of those who lost their constitutional right," in the recent legislative elections, he said.
The complaints and protests were made by people in 10 provinces, 22 districts and 19 villages across the country, he added.
Komnas HAM had arrived at the finding after conducting an investigation into the people's complaints and protests in accordance with Law No 39/1999 on its functions, duties and authority power, he said.
The investigation was carried out by a special team consisting of Komnas HAM members and staffers and three members of the general public.
Kasin said the team's investigation had also identified at least seven specific problems in the organization of the recent legislative elections that had prevented so many people from exercising their voting right.
Among the problems were the chaos in the Home Ministry's population administration system, the absence of an awareness among the state's apparatuses and the election organizers of the state's duty to enable its citizens to exercise their civil rights, the absence of a special policy on a budgeting system for general elections, institutional incompetence in the General Elections Commission (KPU) and the KPU's centralized authority.
Other problems were weaknesses in the organizational capability of the KPU and in the Election Supervisory Body.
