Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – Indonesian Vice President Ma’ruf Amin emphasized that the neutrality of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) in elections cannot be negotiated and there are already provisions governing this matter.
“I think neutrality already has rules, ASN must be neutral, that’s clear, it is not negotiable,” the Vice President told reporters after chairing a meeting of the National Bureaucratic Reform Steering Committee, in Jakarta, Thursday.
This was conveyed by the Vice President regarding the General Election Commission (KPU) statement that allowed ASN to work in ad hoc election management bodies such as the sub-district election committee (PPK), voting committee (PPS), and voting organizing group (KPPS), with the condition that they have more leave. before.
According to the Vice President, the permissibility of ASN involvement in ad hoc election management bodies is aimed at areas that have difficulty recruiting civil society.
“So that when there are difficulties, this ASN becomes a kind of ad hoc temporary officer. He is assigned especially to difficult areas such as 3T areas, lagging, frontier, outermost,” he explained.
He stressed that by becoming an ad hoc level election organizer, ASN would of course remain neutral, by not being involved as party members or avoiding political interests that lead to mass mobilization to fulfill a political interest.
“So if (becomes) the organizer, then he doesn’t have to be neutral. Remain neutral, and it is also ad hoc in nature. Later when he is finished (assigned) he will return (to work) as an ASN,” he explained.
On a separate occasion, the chairman of the Indonesian Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) Rahmat Bagja said that the state civil servants (ASN) who are members of the ad hoc election management body must take leave.
“So, ASN may become a commissioner (member) at the ad hoc level, go ahead, but have to leave. That is in accordance with the response letter from the Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (Abdullah Azwar Anas) if I’m not mistaken and the letter from the Head of the State Personnel Agency (Plt. Head of BKN Bima Haria) Wibisana),” said Bagja.
Meanwhile, KPU RI member Parsadaan Harahap said that there were no problems related to ASN being members of the election management ad hoc body.
According to Parsadaan, this is part of a shared commitment that holding elections is not only the responsibility of the KPU and other organizers. The KPU realizes that recruiting ad hoc bodies is not as easy as recruiting district/city or provincial KPU members. (mhn/bbs)
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