Jakarta. Masduki, one of the fugitive suspects implicated in the Kuala Lumpur Overseas Election Committee (PPLN) vote tampering case, surrendered on Wednesday. 

The Director of General Crimes at the Indonesian National Police Criminal Investigation Department, Djuhandhani Rahardjo Puro, confirmed the surrender, stating that Masduki turned himself in this morning.

Following his surrender, authorities will transfer Masduki to the public prosecutor. 

The National Police has pressed criminal charges against seven election officials accused of manipulating voter data during the poll for Indonesian nationals in Kuala Lumpur. The incident affected the majority of the approximately 491,000 registered voters in the Malaysian capital, preventing them from casting their votes due to the absentee ballots not reaching them.

The seven individuals, including Masduki Khamdan Muchamad, are members of the Overseas Election Committee in Kuala Lumpur. The others are Umar Faruk, Tita Octavia Cahya Rahayu, Dicky Saputra, Aprijon, Puji Sumarsono, and A Khalil.

The first trial for the accused is scheduled for Thursday.

In response to the vote tampering, the General Election Commission (KPU) conducted a redo election in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. However, the KPU noted a lack of enthusiasm among Indonesian citizens in Malaysia to participate in the redo election.

KPU member Idham Holik shared this observation, referring to the redo election at Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur. "The enthusiasm of voters to come to the polling stations was not as high as on the previous election day," he said in Jakarta on Monday. 

While not as crowded as the initial election on Feb. 11, which saw thousands of Indonesians casting their votes, hundreds of Indonesian citizens still participated in the redo election that concluded at 6:00 p.m. local time.