DPR Commission II approved the 2024 election budget for the KPU amounting to IDR 27.39 trillion and Bawaslu amounting to IDR 11.6 trillion. The budget ceiling is recorded only for one round of the presidential election. Inevitably this raises questions.
The following article was translated using both Microsoft Azure Open AI and Google Translation AI. The original article can be found inThe atmosphere of a hearing session between Commission II of the House of Representatives and the General Election Commission and the Election Supervisory Board in the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday . Commission II of the House of Representatives has approved a budget ceiling of Rp 28 trillion for KPU in 2024, down from the proposed Rp 44 trillion.
The budget allocation is only recorded for the implementation of the elections up until the first round of the presidential election. The required budget for the second round of the presidential election for the KPU and Bawaslu worth almost IDR 20 trillion has not yet been confirmed by the government.
Translation: It has been promised by the government that the allocation will be prepared if indeed there is a second round of presidential elections, and it has been set according to the amount proposed by the KPU. Bawaslu Chairman, Rahmat Bagja, stated that ideally the budget for executing the second round of presidential elections should be disbursed no later than the end of February or after the polling on February 14th. The provided budget allocation should not be reduced from the proposal as it could have an impact on the optimization of the implementation phases.
"If the budget has been included in the KPU and Bawaslu's 2024 budget ceiling, budget certainty will not be an issue," he said.Separately, Professor of the Institute of Domestic Governance , Djohermansyah Djohan, stated that the budgetary needs are a consequence of the implementation of electoral democracy. Therefore, the government must have the courage to allocate funds so that the implementation of the elections is not disrupted.
He assesses that the verbal commitment from the government to guarantee the budget is very weak. This is because the difference in time between the voting and the second round of the presidential election is very short, only one month apart. During that time, the KPU and Bawaslu are busy with vote recapitulation and claims from election participants, resulting in their energy being drained.
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