Jakarta, March 28 2019.
Neutrality is one of the principles in implementing policies and management of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN), as stated in article 2 of Law Number 5 of 2014 concerning the State Civil Apparatus (UU ASN). ASN neutrality is not only related to political activities, but also in public services and policy making and ASN management. The non-neutrality of ASN will significantly affect the delivery of public services and the effectiveness of government administration. Violations of this principle can also encourage ASN to become involved in corrupt practices.
The current election period is a tough challenge for ASN to be neutral. On the one hand, ASN must declare neutrality, while on the other hand, ASN has the right to vote. Bawaslu data released as of March 1 2019 shows that there were 165 violations committed by ASN in 15 provinces. Central Java Province 43 violations, South Sulawesi 26 violations, Southeast Sulawesi 19 violations, West Java 17 violations, Banten 16 violations, Bali 8 violations, West Sulawesi 7 violations, NTB 6 violations, Riau 5 violations, East Kalimantan 5 violations. Bangka Belitung 3 violations, Riau Islands 2 violations, South Sumatra 2 violations, and Maluku 1 violation.
Therefore, to minimize violations of the ASN code of ethics and code of conduct during the Election, PATTIRO collaborated with the State Civil Apparatus Commission (KASN) to organize training for civil society groups to monitor the neutrality of ASN during the 2019 Election.
PATTIRO Program Manager Bejo Untung said that monitoring the ASN neutrality training which was held in four cities, namely Surabaya, Semarang, Bandung and Jakarta, was part of efforts to support KASN in monitoring ASN neutrality. “KASN as an independent institution which has the task of maintaining the neutrality of ASN, needs to be supported by civil society which plays a role as social control in maintaining the neutrality of ASN,” said Bejo.
Bejo further said that so far violations of ASN neutrality during election periods still occur frequently. “Violations of ASN neutrality still occur even though this is very clearly regulated in Law no. “No. 5 of 2014 concerning ASN, many ASN even openly showed their support for one of the election participants,” said Bejo.
Based on the instruments developed by PATTIRO for the monitoring process, there are nine types of violations that will monitor civil society groups in four cities. These nine types of violations are based on applicable laws and regulations. The nine types of violations are: ASN puts up campaign props (APK) that promote themselves or other people as election participants (Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, DPR candidates, DPD candidates, Provincial DPRD candidates, Regency/City DPRD candidates)
- ASN declared itself as a supporter of election participants.
- ASN attends declarations of support for election candidates and election participants with or without using the attributes of potential candidate pairs/political party attributes.
- ASN uploads, responds (such as likes, comments, and the like) or disseminates images/photos of election participants via online media or social media
- ASN becomes a speaker/resource person/participant at election participant meetings.
- ASN makes decisions and/or actions that are beneficial or detrimental to one of the candidate pairs
- ASN is involved in campaigns to support election participants as well as holding activities that lead to partisanship.
- ASN provides facilities and/or financial support related to campaign activities to election participants.
- ASN invites or mobilizes other people to support election participants
The results of the monitoring findings will later be reported to KASN via the KaSN Lapor channel (LaporKASN) on the KASN website and SP4N-LAPOR! on lapor.go.id.d website.
Contributor: Fitria
