Election Commission To Evaluate performance Of Election Executors

Jakarta, May 9 (Antara) - The National Election Commission (KPU) will evaluate the performance of executors of the legislative elections, which was held on April 9, an official said. "In principle, we agreed to make an evaluation and we have issued a circular on the human resource issue. Therefore, for personnel of subsidiary election organizing agencies in provinces, cities, districts, sub-districts (PPK) and poll committees (PPS) as well as poll station officers (KPPS), we must evaluate to improve the presidential election," KPU Commissioner Ferry Kurnia said here on Friday. If officers are suspected of not being professional in implementing their tasks, they will be replaced. "If there are members, including commissioners (central KPU), who are not independent they will lose their position," Kurnia said. The KPU has the authority to pass strictures against officers who are not independent. A commissioner of KPU in Manado was recently dismissed for not being objective. KPU will make them non-active and the Honorary Council of Election Management Body (DKPP) will decide whether they will be dismissed. Supervision will be carried out in stages and the KPU will not directly supervise those at the local levels, according to him. Indonesia`s parliamentary elections, the largest and most complicated single-day poll in the world, ran peacefully on April 9. More than 185.8 million voters spread across thousands of islands, which stretch some 4,800 kilometers from east to west, were registered to vote in over 545 thousand polling stations during the elections in the world`s third-largest democracy, following India and the United States. This year`s parliamentary election was contested by 12 national political parties and three local parties in Aceh Province. According to the country`s law, a political party is required to win at least 25 percent of the total votes or a minimum of 20 percent of the 560 seats contested in the House of Representatives (DPR) before it can nominate its presidential candidate for the election, which is scheduled to be held on July 9.