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Fri, 07/03/2009 - 21:19
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DIN SYAMSUDIN: KPU SHOULD BE NEUTRAL
Tangerang, Banten, July 3 (ANTARA) - The General Elections Commission (KPU) should be neutral and honor the people's trust in organizing the upcoming presidential election, Din Syamsudin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, said.
"KPU must be neutral toward the presidential candidates in this election because KPU is a bureaucratic organ the people must be able to trust," he said here on Friday.
Din Syamsudin made the statement in response to a KPU advertisement that favored a certain presidential aspirant.
"The KPU 's bureaucracy is beginning to support one of the presidential candidates, namely number 2. This should have never happened because it could harm our political structure," he said.
He also asked Muhammadiyah's members supporting certain political parties not to cause any conflict.
"I ask executives and cadres of Muhammadiyah involved in political parties not to bring the name of Muhammadiyah in any slogans of their campaigns. Because Muhammadiyah belongs to the people, don't create any misperception," he told ANTARA.
However, he admitted that Muhammadiyah's executives as well as cadres have the right to be involved in politic.
Meanwhile, in the runup to the presidential polls on Wednesday next week, KPU has been urged to immediately settle the problems of unregistered voters and voters' card duplications as well as organize the election transparently without taking sides with any of the three presidential candidates.
"Let us save Indonesia by not letting presidential election fraud to happen. One of the crucial things that has to be corrected is the fixed voter's list (DPT) which has the potential of being tampered with," Hasanuddin, former chairman of the Central Board of the Islamic Students Association (PB HMI), said here on Thursday.
He made the remarks in response to an allegation that KPU had been biased and not serious enough in handling the problem of fixed voter's list. It was also accused of being biased in issuing popularization banners where it was suspected to have tried to direct voters to tick one of the presidential candidates.
"KPU must be neutral toward the presidential candidates in this election because KPU is a bureaucratic organ the people must be able to trust," he said here on Friday.
Din Syamsudin made the statement in response to a KPU advertisement that favored a certain presidential aspirant.
"The KPU 's bureaucracy is beginning to support one of the presidential candidates, namely number 2. This should have never happened because it could harm our political structure," he said.
He also asked Muhammadiyah's members supporting certain political parties not to cause any conflict.
"I ask executives and cadres of Muhammadiyah involved in political parties not to bring the name of Muhammadiyah in any slogans of their campaigns. Because Muhammadiyah belongs to the people, don't create any misperception," he told ANTARA.
However, he admitted that Muhammadiyah's executives as well as cadres have the right to be involved in politic.
Meanwhile, in the runup to the presidential polls on Wednesday next week, KPU has been urged to immediately settle the problems of unregistered voters and voters' card duplications as well as organize the election transparently without taking sides with any of the three presidential candidates.
"Let us save Indonesia by not letting presidential election fraud to happen. One of the crucial things that has to be corrected is the fixed voter's list (DPT) which has the potential of being tampered with," Hasanuddin, former chairman of the Central Board of the Islamic Students Association (PB HMI), said here on Thursday.
He made the remarks in response to an allegation that KPU had been biased and not serious enough in handling the problem of fixed voter's list. It was also accused of being biased in issuing popularization banners where it was suspected to have tried to direct voters to tick one of the presidential candidates.
