REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Black campaigns launched in the cyber world, social media, and other mass media have no direct influence on inciting the public to commit anarchic acts, the chief security minister said.

"Apparatuses of the Strategic Intelligence Agency (Bais), the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI), and the National Police (Polri) had been monitoring black campaigns. They had been monitoring the activities along the day and have found that black campaigns had not influenced the public," Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto said here on Wednesday.

Speaking to the press after holding a coordination meeting on the pacification of the upcoming presidential elections on July 9, 2014, Djoko said that the public have now become smart and will not allow themselves to be provoked because of unlawful acts.

He said that the Polri assisted by the TNI will be on full alert to maintain security, from the execution of campaign until the July 9 presidential election.

"The number of apparatuses who are deployed will be adjusted to the dynamism in the field," he said.

Indonesia will organize a presidential election on July 9, 2014, which will be contested by two pairs: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla.

Prabowo Subianto is a retired military general and the founder of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

Jokowi is Jakarta's governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), while his running mate, Jusuf Kalla, is a former vice president and a senior politician of the Golkar Party.

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