VIOLATIONS of the neutrality of the state civil equipment (ASN) through the 2024 regional elections are predicted to be better than within the 2024 common elections in February, regardless that Regulation Quantity 10/2016 regarding Regional Elections regulates the difficulty of ASN neutrality extra comprehensively. Electoral legislation skilled from the College of Indonesia, Titi Anggraini, stated that legislation enforcement towards ASNs who violate neutrality just isn’t sufficient to be prison.
In line with Titi, the effectiveness of the work of the Election Supervisory Physique (Bawaslu) and collaboration with related stakeholders is the important thing to stopping and coping with violations of bureaucratic and ASN neutrality. In line with him, the potential for politicization of the forms and ASN in regional election contestations tends to be better than typically elections.
“The reason being as a result of the civil service improvement officer is held by the regional head. ASN not solely wants his voice but additionally his affect is usually used to get better assist from the voting public,” defined Titi to Media Indonesia, Sunday (26/5).
He defined that the Regional Election Regulation really regulates the difficulty of neutrality and legislation enforcement towards ASN extra comprehensively than the Election Regulation. This makes violations of ASN neutrality extra punishable from a prison facet throughout regional elections than throughout common elections. The reason being, ASN taking sides was declared a regional election crime.
That is completely different from violations of ASN’s neutrality throughout elections akin to people who came about final February. It’s because they will solely be declared to have dedicated an election crime if they’re confirmed to be a part of the marketing campaign staff collaborating within the election. Nonetheless, legislation enforcement concerning violations of ASN neutrality throughout regional elections should not cease on the prison facet alone.
“Regulation enforcement just isn’t sufficient simply to hold out the prison course of. It is usually essential to take motion from administrative or positional elements which might have a deterrent impact,” defined Titi.
Administrative sanctions embody demotion, cuts to ASN salaries, or transfers. Titi assessed that sanctions for violations of ASN neutrality have been handed on to the ASN Fee (KASN). Nonetheless, the dissolution of KASN within the new ASN Regulation regime must be of concern to all events to resolve the difficulty of ASN neutrality through the 2024 regional elections in November.
“In an effort to keep away from creating a possibility for extra huge violations, the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform and associated ministries ought to have standardized and measurable procedures concerning dealing with violations of ASN neutrality, together with monitoring and imposing sanctions,” concluded Titi. (Tri/Z-7)
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