The General Elections Supervisory Body Opens Registration for Election Observers

Jakarta, General Elections Supervisory Agency – Bawaslu officially opened the registration for 2024 Election Observers which was marked by the launch of the 2024 Election Monitoring Service Desk on Friday (10/6/2022).

In addition to receiving registrations for 2024 Election Observers, as the name suggests, the 2024 Election Monitoring Service Desk will also be a means to serve 2024 Election observers in carrying out election monitoring tasks, especially those related to Bawaslu as regulated in laws and regulations.

The 2024 Election Monitoring Service Desk is important to facilitate communication between Bawaslu and election observers who are Bawaslu's strategic partners. With the service desk, Bawaslu also intends to open access to the widest possible community involvement in monitoring the 2024 election process.

During the 2024 election monitoring phase, Bawaslu is committed to increasing public participation in election monitoring. This commitment is proven by Bawaslu by facilitating individuals who are called to monitor elections to be able to join legal entities monitoring institutions.

This is mainly to accommodate the participatory supervisory cadres in implementing their knowledge and skills in election monitoring. Furthermore, it is also to open up as much public participation in supervising democratic events as possible.

The participatory supervisory cadre is the Participatory Supervisory Cadre School organized by Bawaslu. The number reached almost 11,000 people from 2018 to 2021.

The Election Monitoring Service Desk is a resource for Bawaslu to provide information, support, and registration services for organizations and individuals to obtain accreditation or legality as election observers.

In addition, the service desk is also a place for Bawaslu to communicate with election observers in carrying out election monitoring tasks, including reporting the results of their monitoring.

Bawaslu hopes that the Election Monitoring Service Desk can increase participation in election monitoring, both in terms of the number of accredited institutions and individuals, as well as in terms of activities and focus of monitoring.

For the record, in the 2019 Election, Bawaslu issued election monitoring accreditation for 138 legal entities. Two of them are election monitoring institutions from abroad.

This number shows the high willingness of the community to be involved in monitoring work. However, the challenges of organizing the 2024 election stages are increasingly complex.

This is because, apart from increasing public political awareness, the instruments and modes of violation are also increasingly varied. Therefore, public involvement in election monitoring is absolutely necessary.

To ensure the objectivity of election monitoring, independence is a principle that must be upheld by election observers. All stakeholders and the public in general can report to Bawaslu if there are indications or evidence of the impartiality of election observers.

In addition, election observers must be highly committed to submitting a report on the results of monitoring to the Bawaslu ranks in accordance with the program and monitoring area.

In addition to monitoring and consolidating surveillance data, this aims to enrich the follow-up analysis as well as a comprehensive evaluation of supervisory activities.