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http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/parties-accused-of-62m-poll-frauds/310714 June 07, 2009 Nivell Rayda Parties Accused of $62m Poll Frauds Indonesia Corruption Watch has reported all the major political parties to the General Elections Commission for possible campaign fraud totaling Rp 621.5 billion ($62.7 million). The allegations include illegal campaign contributions, under-reporting of campaign funds and unreported campaign spending on advertising. Officials from all of the nine parties elected to the House of Representatives refused to comment on the ICW's findings when contacted by the Jakarta Globe on Sunday. A statement released by the ICW over the weekend alleged that at least Rp 161.3 billion in donations to several major political parties competing in the April 9 legislative elections were suspected to be illegal and therefore potentially fraudulent. A study by the leading antigraft watchdog showed that out of the nine parties that secured seats in the House, only the campaign funds of three parties - the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) - had originated from legitimate sources. The rest of the parties, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, had funds that originated from fictitious individuals and companies, and anonymous sources. The ICW also found that two parties - the Golkar Party, chaired by Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) - had underreported their funds by Rp 33.9 billion. ICW said it had also uncovered Rp 426.3 billion of unreported advertising campaign spending involving five major political parties. The allegations have been forwarded to the elections commission (KPU). The Elections Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) had previously published a similar report and lodged a complaint with the KPU, but it did not include the results in its final report on campaign accounts and electoral spending. "The campaign funds audit by the General Elections Commission does not accurately explain the true origins of the political parties' funding," ICW researcher Ibrahim Fahmi Badoh said. "The KPU appears to have only carried out a minimum standard of auditing." KPU commissioner Andi Nurpati said that "our audit showed indications of illegal funding activities but the data was not enough for the KPU to take action against the parties." On Wednesday, Bawaslu also said it had uncovered three types of alleged violations of campaign funding regulations involving more than one presidential candidate participating in the July 8 presidential poll. Bawaslu is currently investigating the cases by checking the campaign funding data submitted by candidates to the KPU. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
