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BAWASLU for short) and Election Commissions (Komisi Pemilihan Umum, or KPU
for short) are two electoral management bodies that share the same principle. In spite
of being in the same body, BAWASLU is often mistaken as KPU by common people.
Harwyn Malonda, the chairman of Suluts BAWASLU, stated, Practically, KPU and
BAWASLU were like living in the same house, but parted rooms. The differences
between them are mainly in the duties and functions of the bodies, but the main goal
is the same: to run the mandate of the law existed, which is to execute elections. As
for the duties of BAWASLU, they could be found in Article 74 of Law No. 22 of
2007, and the duties of KPU could be found in Article 10 of Law No. 3 of 1999.
Briefly, the duties of BAWASLU are as follows:
Supervising the preparation of the elections execution
Supervising the stages of the elections execution
Supervising the execution of court decisions
Managing and maintaining the documents
Supervising the execution of charge of criminal offenses in the election
Supervising the execution of the criminal offenses court decisions
Evaluating the supervision of elections
Arranging the result of the elections supervision
Executing other duties stated in the law
The duties of KPU are as follows:
Planning and preparing for the execution of general elections
Receiving, investigating, and deciding which political parties could
participate in the elections
Establishing Indonesias Election Committee which later is called PPI
(Panitia Pemilihan Indonesia) and coordinating the activities to run the
general elections from the central to the poll
Deciding the number of The House of Representatives and The
Regional House of Representatives 1 and 2 for each poll
Deciding the overall results of the elections in every poll for The
House of Representatives and The Regional House of Representatives
1 and 2
Collecting and systemizing the results of the elections
Leading the stages of elections
Besides the duties, BAWASLU also has several obligations as follows:
Being not discriminative in running their duties and authority
Performing supervision towards the execution of duties of BAWASLU
in every stage
Receiving and following up the report of the existence of criminal
offense in the elections
Reporting the result of the election supervision periodically as needed
Doing their other duties given by the law
There is not so much to compare from Electoral Supervisory Body of
Indonesia and other country. Most of long-standing-democracy country does
not really have electoral supervisor body established by the government, they