Pemilu 2014, Polri Waspadai `Perang Warna` di Tahun Politik
Indonesian Police Alert `Color War`Ahead of the General Election 2014
Reporter : Rusdi Kamal
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Jakarta (B2B) - Kepala Lembaga Pendidikan Polri (Kalemdikpol) Komjen Pol Budi Gunawan mengatakan Indonesia harus mewaspadai adanya "perang warna" menjelang Pemilihan Umum 2014.
"Perang warna sebentar lagi akan nampak di mana-mana. Hal tersebut jika tidak diatur baik akan menimbulkan keresahan dan konflik," kata Budi dalam sambutannya sebagai pembicara kunci dalam Seminar Sekolah Sespimmen Polri Dikreg 53 di PTIK Jakarta, Kamis.
Ditambahkan jenderal polisi bintang tiga itu, dari pengalaman Pemilu 2004 dan 2009, suasana menjelang pemilu menjadi semakin panas. Hal itu juga terjadi pada 2013 yang kerap dikatakan sebagai tahun politik.
"Di beberapa daerah sudah jadi korban pewarnaan ini, suatu kali ada pewarnaan kuning, besoknya jadi putih, merah, putih, kuning, ramai sekali," ujarnya.
Guna menghadapinya, kata dia, diperlukan koordinasi dan sinergi yang erat antara instrumen penyelenggara dan peserta pemilu serta peran masyarakat dan kepolisian yang menjaga keamanan dan kenyamanan.
Budi juga menjelaskan berdasarkan identifikasi permasalahan pemilu, ada pemetaan potensi konflik horizontal (antarparpol peserta pemilu) serta konflik vertikal (antara peserta dengan penyelenggara pemilu) yang kerap terjadi.
"Tiap partai politik ada konstituennya, tentu kita berharap parpol mampu menjalankan peran untuk mencegah kerawanan," tuturnya.
Kepolisian mengaku telah melakukan langkah pengamanan pemilu melalui penandatanganan nota kesepahaman dengan sejumlah instansi seperti KPU, Bawaslu, Kejaksaan Agung dan seluruh partai politik untuk menjaga keamanan dan ketertiban. Selain itu, pemilu juga menjadi program prioritas pertama dalam 12 program prioritas Polri.
"Hal ini ditandai dengan komitmen sikap netral Polri dalam Pemilu 2014 yang akan datang," katanya.
Jakarta (B2B) - Indonesians must be alert over a possible "war of colors" as parties will increase political activities ahead of the general elections next year, warned Commissioner General Budi Gunawan, the head of the Institute of Police Education, here on Thursday.
"The war of colors will soon take place everywhere in the country. The situation may cause unrest and create conflict unless it is regulated," he explained in his speech at a seminar on police leadership for school participants at the Institute of Police Science.
He added, based on experiences from 2004 and 2009, the situation will heat up ahead of the elections, and it is already happening this year, he noted.
"In several regions, the war of colors has already begun. One day it was dominated by yellow, and the other day, white. It has been very colorful," he stated.
To handle the situation, there has to be coordination and synergy between elections organizers, participants, community members and the police.
Gunawan added that to ensure security, the police have already identified potential problems and conflicts between political parties, as well as between participants and organizers. He emphasized that in view of the situation, all parties must support the stages of the election process.
"Each party has constituencies, and we certainly hope that the political parties will be capable of playing their role well to prevent avoidable disturbances," he stated.
He also stated that the police have adopted several security measures that include signing the Memorandum of Understanding with a number of institutions, such as the General Elections Commission (KPU), the General Elections Supervisory Board (Bawaslu), the Attorney Generals Office and all political parties involved in the elections. He noted that the general elections were one of the 12 priority security programs for the police.
He explained that the police had expressed their commitment to stay neutral in the elections.
