Jakarta – The Indonesian Regional Representative Council (DPD RI) is all set to evaluate the procedure of local head elections (pilkada) arranged on December 9, 2020, through the involvement of senators of all areas.
” For this reason, every senator in 32 provinces that hold local elections monitors the process and phases, consisting of the variety of regions that look for financing help from the center,” DPD Chairman La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti noted in a press release here on Tuesday following a DPD plenary session at the Parliament Complex, Senayan.
The examination will also encompass health protocols enforced throughout the election process stages carried out by the General Election Commission (KPU).
Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman II of DPD RI Mahyudin kept in mind that the DPD had earlier opposed the plan to organize pilkada on Dec 9, 2020, in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The government and KPU took a collective choice to continue with the election procedure in states.
” Hence, we need to be smart and remain sentient to the concept of prudence,” he specified.
According to DPD’s recent report of the nation’s 34 provinces, a number of areas had expressed preparedness to hold the synchronised local head elections, however several others suggested that the elections be delayed, as they are still preoccupied with the fight versus the novel coronavirus break out.
Mahyudin highlighted the requirement to execute the government-issued Perpu No. 2 of 2020, or Federal government Guideline en lieu of Law No. 2 of 2020, on local head elections and abide by the health procedures on dealing with the pandemic.
4 DPD leaders– DPD Chairman AA LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti, Deputy Chair I Nono Sampono, Deputy Chair II Mahyudin, and Deputy Chair III Sultan Baktiar Najamudin– were physically present during the DPD plenary session at the Senayan parliamentary complex, while DPD members engaged virtually in the meeting from their particular homes.
Earlier, the management and members of Committee I of the DPD RI accepted decline the simultaneous local head elections in December 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. They revealed their rejection through a letter sent out to the government.
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