REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The United Development Party (PPP) Secretary General, M Romahurmuziy, has expressed concern about money politics during the April 9 legislative elections.
"We have been informed that in several regions such as Kebumen, Banjarnegara, and Purbalingga, the legislative candidates from some political parties have distributed coupons to the local people to be exchanged with money after the polling day," Romahurmuziy revealed through a press release on Wednesday.
Therefore, the secretary general of PPP, a moderate Islamic political party in Indonesia, called upon the Elections Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) to have its personnel manage and prevent the practice of money politics.
He noted that lack of open campaigns with a small number of participants has indicated the existence of money politics, practiced by some legislative candidates and political parties.
"Our observation on certain political parties, which held open campaigns that were attended by many people, indicated that they were paid to participate in the campaigns," he pointed out.
Romahurmuziy added that PPP made a lot of success in conducting the open campaigns in Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Magelang, Banyumas, Banjarmasin, and Makassar.
"We also held sympathetic campaigns at several locations in Jakarta and Kebumen to build good political communication with the local community," he noted.
He pointed out that during some dialog campaigns; he had explained that money politics during the elections will only eliminate the rights of the people to vote in the elections.
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