JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The General Election Commission (KPU) had finally signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Anti-Money Laundering Agency PPATK to monitoring and combating illegal campaign finance by all contestants of April’s Legislative and July’s Presidential Elections.
KPU Chairman Husni Kamil Malik explained the cooperation would provide wide access to PPATK to curb and to combate illegal financing from all lawmaker candidates, senator candidates, political parties, and presidential &vice presidential candidates prior to the elections.
The problem, according to PPATK Chairman Muhammad Yusuf, PPATK has yet to have bank account of campaign fund from all the contestants of the elections.
KPU did not require the contestants of election to report their bank account because KPU has no authority on this issue.
But PPATK has sent a letter to 300 banks in the country and requested the banks to disclose the bank accounts of the elections’ contestants to PPATK.
The elections itself would be participated by 12 eligible political parties, 6,606 lawmaker candidates, 945 senator candidates, and around three pair candidates of presidential and vice presidential. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)