I love an overview. And IPAC, the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, has come up with a corker: “Aceh’s Elections: A Do-it-yourself Analysis,” published on March 31, 2014.
If
you’re still confused about who’s who, this document should help.
Granted,
it’s a little like closing the barn door after the water buffalo has left, but
reading this document in the context of what we know, or what is being
reported, about election violence and fraud in certain dapil (voting districts), the not-yet-finalized reality is bearing
out the assumptions made in the report. (National election results will be
final May 9th.)
Plus,
there is a handy fill-in-the-blank monitoring chart in the Appendix that lets
you “compare the 2014 results to the legislative elections in 2009 and the
gubernatorial election in 2012 in terms of the strength of Partai Aceh in each
district.”
Yesterday
I posted a press release from PNA outlining abuses and election fraud committed
by Partai Aceh/PA [who are being courted by the Gerinda Party for support in
the July presidential election]. Wanting to get both sides of the story, I went
searching for similar reports, interviews or public statements made by PA
members regarding their PNA opposition.
I could find very little. People
in Aceh also told me that it was common knowledge that it was PA who “controlled”
the elections (and the province) and they were doing everything they could to
keep it that way, from intimidation to voter interference. One citizen told me, “Everyone saw
what was happening during the election with Partai Aceh, but nobody wanted to
report it because of fear and the safety of themselves and their families. In
some districts the number of abstentions was increased too. My personal
opinion, this election is worse than last election period in Aceh. Fraud and
intimidation was marked by PA.”
This combined with the Probowa/Sharia love-fest does not bode well for
the province.
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