Buleleng - The Buleleng Regency Government fully supports the implementation of the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Head Elections (Pilkada), starting from planning, budgeting, to implementation.
"There is even a budget that we have disbursed to the General Election Commission (KPU) and the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) of Buleleng for the 2024 Pilkada last year," said Acting (Pj.) Regent of Buleleng Ketut Lihadnyana when met after attending the Evaluation and Dissolution of the Buleleng Regency 2024 Simultaneous Election Adhoc Board at a hotel in Tukadmungga Village, Buleleng District, Thursday (4/4/2024).
Lihadnyana explained that in accordance with the assigned tasks, the Pj. regional head led the local government to facilitate the 2024 Pilkada to run peacefully, safely, and smoothly.
Budget support, said Lihadnyana, has been given according to its portion and has been prepared. In fact, some have been disbursed to the KPU and Bawaslu.
"We were the first to disburse the Regional Grant Agreement Script (NPHD), amounting to 40 percent last year and 60 percent we are still waiting for direction from the province," said Lihadnyana.
Not only did it run smoothly, Pj. Regent who is also the Head of the Bali Province Personnel and Human Resources Development Agency (BKPSDM) also appealed to the public to come to the polling stations (TPS) to channel their voting rights. This is important considering that the community will choose the future leader of Buleleng who is not only characterized, but also can bring Buleleng forward.
"I hope that public participation will increase. In the last legislative and presidential elections, participation in Buleleng reached 75.30 percent. In the regional elections, yes, if it can reach 85 percent," said Lihadnyana.
For information, the 2024 Pilkada budget for the Buleleng KPU is IDR 45.3 billion. For Bawaslu Buleleng amounting to IDR 10.277 billion. In 2023, the budget has been disbursed by 40 percent. Meanwhile, the Police amounted to Rp9.2 billion and the TNI amounted to Rp3.4 billion. The TNI and Polri budgets will all be disbursed this year.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Buleleng KPU Komang Dudhi Udiyana said that in general the implementation of elections in Buleleng went well and smoothly even though there were several problems. Thanks to hard work and joint efforts, all problems can be resolved properly.
"Furthermore, we will continue with the simultaneous regional elections on November 27, 2024 because the regional election stages are already underway," said Dudhi Udiyana.
Adhoc bodies that were disbanded this time are expected to rejoin to make the 2024 elections a success. This evaluation is carried out for previous performance so that later in the elections there are no problems again. For the Adhoc Election Agency, he admitted that he was still waiting for a decision from the KPU RI.
"Whether re-selection or just evaluate the existing ones," said Dudhi Udiyana. (MC Kab. Buleleng/dra/InfoPublik)