Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 22-07-2014 Elections

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 22-07-2014

Prabowo’s reaction Elections 2014 The Jakarta Post, 22-07-2014

The ultimate count Members of the Red and White Coalition supporting the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa presidential ticket have voiced their objection to the camp’s plan to Kompas.com, 22-07-2014 challenge the final election result at the Constitutional Court, a move that analysts have seen as a gambit by the members to join the camp of front-runner KPU published the ultimate results of the presidential election after closing their Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. formal meeting at 16.15 hrs local time. Fractures within Prabowo’s Gerindra Party-led coalition, which have been visible This is the outcome: since credible pollsters’ quick counts put the rival “Jokowi”-Jusuf Kalla ticket in Prabowo-Hatta: 62.262.844 (46,85 %) the lead, are intensifying. Jokowi-JK: 70.633.594 (53,15 %) Total valid votes: 132.896.438. Some top politicians from parties supporting Prabowo have insisted on not conceding defeat if the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) final tally, scheduled to be announced today, puts the ticket on the losing side. At 20.00 hrs there will be the formal announcement. Thousands of policemen are on guard in and around the KPU office in Jakarta. Others have urged Prabowo and Hatta to concede defeat and congratulate Jokowi-Kalla as soon as possible, something that many doubt Prabowo would do. For the break-down per province see: http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2014/07/22/18235991/Ini.Hasil.Rekapitulasi.S As of Monday evening, official vote recapitulation by the KPU put Jokowi in the uara.Pilpres.di.33.Provinsi?utm_campaign=related_left&utm_medium=bp&utm_ lead by about 5 to 6 percent. source=news “It’d be better not to take it [to the Constitutional Court]. The process has been objective and transparent. Let’s just accept the result,” Agung Laksono, Golkar Party deputy chairman, which supports Prabowo-Hatta, said on Monday.

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Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 22-07-2014

In particular, Agung encouraged Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie to set an PPP deputy chairman Suharso Monoarfa even claimed that the party would example by congratulating Jokowi, in order to ease tensions between supporters immediately shift its support to Jokowi-Kalla, should the ticket be declared the of the two tickets. winner by the KPU.

Aside from Gerindra and Golkar, other parties supporting Prabowo’s bid are “PPP’s chief patron, who is highly respected, Maimun Zubair, has mandated that Hatta’s National Mandate Party (PAN), President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s the party respect any decision issued by the KPU and support the new Democratic Party, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the United Development government. I think his message is very clear,” he said. Party (PPP) and the Crescent Star Party (PBB). In comparison, Communications and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring, a Excluding the Democratic Party, six of the parties have signed a permanent member of PKS’ board of patrons, said that his party would support Prabowo’s coalition pact and are expected to maintain the grouping regardless of the final plan to challenge the result if the former commander of the Army’s Special election result. Analysts, however, have deemed the pact non-binding and Forces (Kopassus) lost the election. ineffective in preventing the parties from leaving the coalition. “Eighty percent of the witnesses from Prabowo’s camp are from the PKS. Thus we Also on Monday, Democratic Party secretary-general Edhie “Ibas” Baskoro have the data and we will compare ours [with that from the KPU]. Thus, I fully Yudhoyono indicated that the ruling party could end up supporting Jokowi’s support if we challenge the result at the Constitutional Court later,” Tifatul said. administration, should the latter win. Mahfud MD, the head of Prabowo’s campaign team, clarified on Monday that he “Our party’s stance is not yet decided. We will have further discussions on would not concede defeat before the official vote tally announcement. The whether we will be inside or outside the government after the KPU announces its former Constitutional Court chief justice, however, acknowledged that he would official result,” said Ibas, who is also Yudhoyono’s youngest son, as quoted by accept the KPU’s decision if it said Jokowi had won the race. kompas.com.

PPP secretary-general M. Romahurmuziy claimed that the Red and White Coalition was prepared to accept the final vote tally as released by the KPU. “It’s He also said that he would return the mandate of leading the campaign team to still possible, however, that we might file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court Prabowo-Hatta after the announcement. “I will not get involved if it goes to the if we consider the final vote tally to be unfair,” he said. Constitutional Court,” Mahfud said, adding that it could be unethical for him to do so given his status as the court’s former chairman.

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 22-07-2014

In Surabaya thousands of Prabowo-supporters and members of Pemuda Under Budiman’s leadership, the Army was criticized for allegedly failing to Pancasila took to the streets, appealed to do so by Prabowo, while at the same remain neutral in the presidential election. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono time calling for a peaceful solution. claimed in June that several active generals had been disloyal to him as the military’s supreme commander. “This is hardly slander, as my sources have see confirmed that certain quarters have approached several high-ranking officers in order to get their support for presidential candidates,” he said. "There has been a The Prabowo team is falling apart with the stepping down of its chairman Mahfud suggestion that they [the officers] abandon their President and not listen to him, MD and the absence of Prabowo’s running mate Hatta Rajasa at his withdrawal because he is in ‘a sinking ship’ [...] It is much better to follow a bright new star,” statement Yudhoyono. Speculation is rife that Yudhoyono's ire was directed at Budiman and SBY fires the army chief of staff Moeldoko, who was once tapped as a running mate for presidential candidate Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. (ren) According to Merdeka (22-07-2014) the two months early pension of general Budiman, chief of staff of the army (only appointed last year) has nothing to do with the presidential election announcement. Political analyst Muradi from Pajajaran University thinks the sudden departure of Budiman is related to the not neutral attitude among several units of the army (Kompas, 21-07-2014).

(The Jakarta Post, 22-07-2014: ) Indonesia Military (TNI) Commander Gen. Moeldoko said on Tuesday that the TNI headquarters had proposed three candidates to take over as Army chief of staff, after Gen. Budiman was removed from the position on Monday night. Moeldoko said the candidates included Army Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Muhammad Munir, Army’s Strategic Reserve Commander Lt. Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo and National Resilience Council (Wantannas) secretary-general Lt. Gen. Waris. “We've submitted the names. The President is slated to confirm the candidate later today," said Moeldoko.