Soldiers to safeguard Constitutional Court ruling

JAKARTA. Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Moeldoko has instructed on Wednesday all military personnel in the country to secure the outcome of the election dispute that will be announced by the Constitutional Court on Thursday.

TNI chief spokesman Maj. Gen. Fuad Basya said that Moeldoko had contacted major units from all services — the Army, the Navy and the Air Force — to secure the outcome of election dispute, especially those located in Java and more specifically Jakarta.

Fuad said military personnel would follow a similar security arrangement to the one carried out by the military for the April 9 legislative election.

“In principle, what we’re going to do will not differ much from when we secured the legislative election and the presidential election,” Fuad said Wednesday.

He said the military would work together with the National Police in securing the outcome of the election dispute.

“The point is that we are ready to help the National Police for security tomorrow (Thursday),” he said.

The court is set to announce the result of an election dispute submitted by presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Hatta Rajasa.

Prabowo and Hatta filed a lawsuit against the General Elections Commission (KPU), claiming planned, massive and structured fraud in the presidential election. (put/nvn)