Thursday, 27 October 2022
Socialization of the Neutrality of State Civil Apparatus during the 2024 Simultaneous Elections
Balikpapan, 10/25/2022. Plt. The Head of the General Subdivision of Bappeda for East Kalimantan Province (Mr. Jerry Pahlevy Mahakam, SE, M.Si) attended the "Socialization of the Neutrality of State Civil Servants in the Implementation of the 2024 Simultaneous Elections" which was held at the Grand Senyiur Hotel, Balikpapan. The socialization was opened by the Deputy Governor of East Kalimantan and attended by the Head of the East Kalimantan Provincial Kesbangpol Agency, the Head of the East Kalimantan Provincial BKD, the Head of the East Kalimantan KPU, the Head of the East Kalimantan Bawaslu as well as all representatives of the Kesbangpol Agency and BKD at Regency/City level throughout East Kalimantan.
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Several important notes from the results of the implementation of these socialization activities include, among others, that neutrality provisions for ASN have been regulated through Law Number 5 of 2014, one of which is that ASN must not take sides or carry out activities that show partiality towards election or regional head election participants; The Joint Decree (SKB) of 5 (five) Ministers and Heads of Institutions has been issued regarding guidelines for fostering and supervising the neutrality of State Civil Service (ASN) employees in holding general elections in order to build synergy and effectiveness in coaching and supervising the neutrality of ASN employees as well as making it easier for ASN to understand things that should not be done and have the potential to violate the code of ethics or employee discipline.
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Furthermore, it was also conveyed regarding the types of disciplinary violations of ASN Neutrality in accordance with the SKB 5 State Institutions which were signed on September 22 2022, including regarding placing banners/billboards/other props related to election and voting candidate candidates; Candidate Social Media/Online Socialization/Campaign; Approach: Political parties as potential candidates and the community (for independents) as potential candidates; Attend declarations/campaigns of candidate pairs and provide partisan actions/support; Become a member and/or administrator of a political party; Make posts, comments, shares, likes, join/follow in winning/candidate groups/accounts; Make decisions/actions that can benefit/disadvantage political parties or candidates or candidate pairs before, during and after the campaign period; Providing support to prospective individual candidates by providing letters of support or collecting photocopies of KTPs or resident certificates; Posting on social media/other media that can be accessed by the public, photos together with: Candidates, successful teams by displaying symbols of partisanship/wearing political party attributes and props related to the political party/candidate; Carrying out activities that lead to bias towards political parties or candidates or candidate pairs; Become an expert team/winning team/consultant or other designation for prospective candidates or potential pairs of candidates participating in elections or elections before determining the participants in elections or elections; and Become an expert team/winning team/consultant or other designation for political parties or candidates or pairs of candidates participating in elections and elections after the determination of participants.
