As an effort to prevent corruption in the 2020 simultaneous regional elections (Pilkada), KPK again held the Pilkada with Integrity Program with the slogan “Choose Honestly, Choose the Honest One”.
Various forms of activities consisted of National Webinars in the context of presenting integrity values in Pilkada, Talk Shows about Selecting Regional Head Candidates, 9 Series of Online Preparation Classes for Organizers, Participants, and Voters in Elections, and the LHKPN Declaration for Cakada.
"The target of this program includes 270 regions that are participating in Pilkada, encompassing 9 provinces, 37 cities, and 224 districts," said Acting KPK Spokesperson Ipi Maryati.
Through a series of webinars and online classes, she said, KPK expects to provide an understanding, especially for regional head candidates and election administrators in terms of the forms of corruption in the regional elections and the procedures for dealing with them.
Aside from that, after being elected, it is expected that the regional head candidates will understand the main issues concerning the running of a corruption-free government. "No less important is the effort to educate voters to exercise their voting rights by choosing regional head candidates who are trustworthy and have integrity and competence," she said.
She explained that this program was formulated as an effort to prevent political corruption. Corruption is how public officials elected through the political process manipulate their public office for personal gain. Those who possess these powers often neglect to think and act in the interests of the people.
Instead, they use the power to guide public policy decisions solely for their own interests. This is in spite of the fact that the positions they acquire should only be used as a tool for producing policies that favor the interests of citizens. So, the goal of the policies must be the improvement of public welfare.
KPK believes that preventing corruption starts with three efforts. First, the focus is placed on the upstream or on how to ensure the integrity within the political process for electing public officials through a democratic process. Second, an emphasis is put on the potential for buying and selling power. The third effort is regarding the design of a community empowerment strategy.
Through the slogan “Choose Honestly, Choose the Honest One”, KPK empowers people to become voters who are smart and have integrity when choosing regional head candidates.
There are several criteria that can be used including checking his/her track record from his/her profile to legal cases. Then, the public must never choose a candidate who offers money because that means he/she is part of the problem in money politics.
After that, if he/she is a state official (PN) such as an incumbent or other public official who is obliged to report LHKPN, the public can check his/her compliance in submitting LHKPN through the following website: https://elhkpn.kpk.go.id/.
If the candidate is an incumbent, then the public can also check his/her anti-corruption commitment in the form of performance achievements during his/her tenure in building governance in his/her region. The public can access this information through the following website: https://jaga.id/j Jendela-daerah/