Suara.com – Migrant CARE visited the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) to report alleged administrative violations by the General Election Commission (KPU) and the New York Overseas Election Organizing Committee (PPLN) for alleged violations of general election administration.
The reason is, they claimed to have found many duplicate voters on the New York permanent overseas voters list (DPTLN).
Migrant CARE Executive Director Wahyu Susilo explained that his party received a complaint from an Indonesian citizen in New York regarding the number of double names registered in the New York DPTLN.
“Based on this complaint, we carried out an in-depth study and found hundreds of duplicate data in two, three and four voting methods at once,” said Wahyu at the Bawaslu Office, Central Newsdelivers.com, Friday (26/1/2024).
He admitted that he found 374 duplicate names in the New York DPTLN.
He suspects that there are more duplicate data facts than what his party has discovered.
“If a deeper examination is carried out, we believe that Bawaslu RI has adequate access and resources to verify and follow up on the irregularities contained in the New York Foreign Affairs DPT,” he said.
Not only that, he also admitted to finding data on voters in the DPTLN who had actually returned to Indonesia three years ago
“This then opens up the question that data updating was not carried out correctly and adequately to guarantee the political rights of citizens abroad,” said Wahyu.
Furthermore, he said that the DPT should be an initial indicator in determining the success of holding the general election process in accordance with the principles of direct, general, free, secret, honest and fair (luber jurdil) or not.
In this way, Wahyu explained that mistakes in the DPT, especially the DPTLN, would open up as much space as possible for fraud and other election violations.
“The issue of foreign data collection and DPT containing multiple voters is a problem that has continued to recur since our monitoring in 2009, 2014 and 2019 and there has never been a serious evaluation regarding this matter,” he said.