Tangerang, the general findings of 2014 election access test are presented by the researcher of Indonesian Parliamentary Center, Erik Kurniawan. He was convey the condition of openness in 2014 election at the Workshop titled “Exploring Learning Test Results” in Serpong, August 14-16th, 2014 at Ara Hotel, Gading Serpong, Tangerang, Banten.
Erik detailing some institutional issues of General Elections Commission (KPU) and Districts Election Commission based on research in South Sulawesi, Aceh, East Java, and Jakarta. According to him, the issue is they still not having the Documentation and Information Management Officer (PPID).
At this point according to Erik, all of the Commission, both central and districts have not yet established the PPID, except in Banda Aceh Election Commission. “The letter of appointment is already exists. It actually could be a role model,” he said.
Erik explains, Banda Aceh Election Commission has PPID due to existence of government roles that encourages all units to have PPID. Secondly, they are always active in providing the information that produced by them. “Well, that’s what causes the Banda Aceh Election Commission has PPID. In addition, the paradigm of their commissioners quite well related on openness,” he added.
The second points, there is no Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on Information Service. According to Erik, in four areas of research that no one implement their SOP. It is then led to several impact access tests. “When it was proposed through individual, responses are varied, there are rejected, responded, you know why citizens have the right to ask that? Actually where do you come from? If you want to submit the data, you should make the organization first,” he said mimicking the response of districts election commission.
Third, there is no list of Public Information. Fourth, it’s still lacking of secretarial support.
Fifth, there is problem of coordination between the commissioners and secretariat. “The last problem mentioned is not an openness issue that arises, but in the aspect of election implementation” he said.
However, Erik mentions there is awareness of openness on the Central Election Commission by opening the C1 document, but unfortunately the KIP law has not become a platform of openness in the election commission.
In terms of actor Erik targeting three roles, including the election organizers (KPU and Bawaslu), civil society organizations and commission information. In terms of election organizers are very aware felt when the KPU of 2012-2017 period, although the understanding on openness is still lacking of, but there is a commitment from election commission on information disclosure. “The awareness has appeared,” he said.
Then, the role of civil society organizations is still very low. But at least, there are two roles that carried to push the openness. “They became direct actor in access tests to the Commission.”In this case, Erik mentions that carried by IPC through its partner including MaTA Aceh, Yasmib of South Sulawesi, KIPP of East Java.
Secondly, the role of civil society organizations that becomes the central disseminators of information. Information that managed by them were delivered and distributed to the public based on their own field; there is a budget, candidates data, data selector. “Actually, it was the election commission information products, but who asked the information was our colleagues.” (AA)