Dirty Vote in Zainal Arifin Mochtar's Perspective

Continuing the explanation from Feri Amsari, Zainal Arifin argued that abuse of regional head authority is an important factor in winning elections, especially in terms of regional distribution.

In this case, Zainal also explained 3 authorities of regional heads that can trigger fraud in elections, namely:

  1. Mobilizing the bureaucracy
  2. Campaign location permits
  3. Imposing sanctions or allowing village heads who are not neutral.

At the same time, he also showed an example that there were 6 Anies campaigns whose permits were revoked by the regional government and there was an activity at GBK involving the Desa Bersatu organization where they declared support for the Prabowo-Gibran candidate pair. Even though, in the end, Bawaslu DKI stated that the Desa Bersatu action had violated the original concept, which was limited to national friendship.

Responding to this, Zainal also explained that there are 4 authorities of village heads that can trigger fraud and be misused during elections, namely:

  1. Voter data
  2. Use of village funds
  3. Data on recipients of social assistance, PKH, BLT
  4. Authority to allocate Social Assistance.

Ironically, apart from having the authority that has the potential to be used in fraud, there is an example of a problem that comes from village heads in the Central Java region. He admitted that he often received pressure from various parties to win certain candidates. This was accompanied by the sudden provision of social assistance that did not match village poverty data.