JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The General Election Commission (KPU) and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on monitoring the use of campaign fund by political parties and legislator candidates participated in next year’s elections.
Also involved on the MoU are Indonesian Accountants Association (IAI), Institute of Indonesian Public Accountants (IAPI), and Indonesian National Private Radio Association (PRSSNI).
“We want an integrity election. There would be no money politics again,” said Husni Kamil Malik, Chairman of KPU, at the KPU’s building in Menteng, Central Jakarta on Tuesday (Sept 24).
Husni said each of political party and legislator candidates must submit their own campaign fund reports starting 22 November 2013 to 2 March 2014.
As earlier reported, the KPK has asked the KPU to disclose the account and the report of campaign fund of each political party eligible to contest in next year’s elections.
In a related progress, the Anti-Money Laundering Agency (PPATK) has previously stressed its commitment to monitoring the financing of twelve political parties and approximately six thousand legislator candidates eligible to contest in next year’s legislative election.
Muhammad Yusuf, Chairman of PPATK, said his agency has urged the Central Bank (Bank of Indonesia) and the Ministry of Finance to immediately release a new regulation on the limitation of cash transaction for up to a maximum of Rp100 million.
The limitation is meant to minimize corruption practices in next year’s elections. Yusuf said PPATK has already obligated every financial service providers to report every transaction of more than Rp500 million done by any political party or legislator candidate to PPATK.
Additionally, PPATK is also monitoring all big projects currently discussed in the House Budgetary Body (Banggar). (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)