Aqida Swamurti, Jakarta – Soldiers, civil servants and children are allowed to participate in campaigns.

The goal is to change the atmosphere of campaigns from their current image of being frightening, brutal and threatening. It's also political education," said Patrialis Akbar, a member of the General Election working committee, Thursday (8/11).

This clause, according to him, has been approved by all factions during the General Election Bill working committee's closed-meetings. Patrialis explained that soldiers may attend campaigns as individuals without wearing any of their official badges or emblems.

Despite soldiers not having the right to vote, campaigns are a part of political education. t is the same as regards civil servants, who are only participants as well. hey also need to hear the vision and mission of the party they will choose.

The previous decree regulates that campaign participants can only be those with the right to vote.

According to Patrialis, a National Awakening Party (PAN) faction member, the regulation is too narrow. s long as the campaign organizer is responsible, those people may attend campaigns.

Ferry Mursyidan Baldan, the General Election Bill special committee head, said soldiers must be given opportunity to be present in campaigns. Not as organizers but as ordinary people," he said.

In the future, there will be a soft pattern for campaigns, for example, to be held in malls. f this does take place, then the possibility of children, civil servants and soldiers attending is inevitable.