Hope for the Selection Team

Greater seriousness is needed because the future members of the KPU and Bawaslu will have duties that are not light, namely to hold the legislative and regional elections simultaneously in 2024.

The fate of the 2024 simultaneous legislative and regional head elections will be determined by 11 members on the selection team responsible for choosing the officials of the General Elections Commission (KPU) as well as the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu).

An interesting incident took place on Tuesday (28/12/2021), when the selection team was interviewing candidates for the KPU and Bawaslu for the 2022-2027 period. The head of the selection team, Juri Ardiantoro, reprimanded one of its members, Bahtiar. The reason was that Bahtiar, who is also the politics and general administration director general at the Home Ministry praised one candidate, August Mellaz, during the interview (Kompas, 29/12/2021).