Legal Literacy - The 2024 general election contest feels very different this time. President Jokowi's dirty maneuver in winning his eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the 2024 presidential election contest is the main factor in the heat of the election which is colored by various acts of fraud from political elites to the grassroots. So what fraud occurred in the 2024 election and is discussed in this film?

3 experts in Constitutional Law, namely Bivitri Susanti (Lecturer at STH Jentera & Founder of the Center for Law and Policy Studies), Zainal Arifin Mochtar (Director of the Center for Anti-Corruption Studies, Faculty of Law, Gadjah Mada University), and Feri Amsari (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Andalas University) revealed a number of election frauds that occurred in the 2024 election, which were dominated by massive and structured fraud committed by President Joko Widodo and his coalition. Various frauds in the 2024 election were clearly explained by the three legal experts in a documentary film entitled Dirty Vote, which aired on Sunday, February 11, 2024 on the channel youtube official PSHK Indonesia.

Dirty Vote and The President's Ambition for One Round

In the nearly 2-hour documentary, President Jokowi is said to have done everything possible to win the presidential election in one round of vote counting. If we refer to article 416 of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections, init requires a national vote acquisition of more than 50% with a victory in a minimum of 20% of the vote in each province spread across more than half the number of provinces in Indonesia. These requirements are what triggered President Jokowi to carry out various actions to support and win the candidate pair number 2 Prabowo Gibran in the 2024 Presidential Election.

Mobilization of Regional Heads From Provinces to Village Heads

Jokowi's inconsistency is clearly visible between his words and actions if we look at his track record over the past few months. A few months ago, the President instructed all ASN, TNI and Polri to be neutral in the election. However, on January 24, 2024, he stated that the president and his deputy may take sides and campaign. Even though it is justified by the Election Law, of course there are strict requirements that must be carried out if he wants to use his right to campaign.

President Jokowi's authority to determine the Acting Governor in each province is used as a means to place 'palace pawns' in various strategic electoral districts which are the target of vote barns for the Prabowo Gibran candidate pair. Feri Amsari in the documentary explained a number of Acting regional heads who are close to Jokowi, such as the Acting Governor of West Java Bey Machmudin who once served as Head of the Presidential Secretariat Bureau in 2016, and Deputy of the Presidential Secretariat in 2021. In addition, there is also the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono who once served as Head of the Presidential Secretariat in 2017, as well as the Acting Governor of Central Java Nana Sudjana who once served as Surakarta police chief in 2010.