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KPU announces final voter list
The General Elections Commission (KPU) on Monday released the final voter list for the 2014 general election, despite a glitch that affected the data of millions of voters
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he General Elections Commission (KPU) on Monday released the final voter list for the 2014 general election, despite a glitch that affected the data of millions of voters.
Although the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) endorsed the final voter list, a number of political parties, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the People's Conscience (Hanura) Party, the United Development Party (PPP) and the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, rejected the list, saying that the KPU must come up with clean data before publishing it.
'The total number of voters in the final list is 186,612,255, comprising 93,493,610 and 93,172,645 male and female voters, from 545,778 polling stations in 497 regencies and municipalities,' KPU chairman Husni Kamil Manik said in a plenary meeting at the poll body's headquarters in Central Jakarta on Monday night.
The poll body also recorded 2,010,280 voters from 130 Overseas Election Committee (PPLN) offices.
Of the 186 million voters' data, around 10.4 million still lack citizen registration numbers. Husni, however, insisted that the 10.4 million voters' data was real, 'not fictitious'.
Law No.8/2012 on legislative elections stipulates that valid data on voters must include name, date of birth, gender, address and civil registration number. If one of the elements is missing, the data is considered void.
However, KPU commissioner Sigit Pamungkas said the data of 10.4 million would remain valid as other required variables, names, genders, date of birth and address, were accurate. He said that within 30 days, all of the 10.4 million people would have civil registration numbers.
Bawaslu chairman Muhammad backed Sigit's claim, saying that his office had also cross-checked the data of the 10.4 million on the field.
'They are not 'ghost voters'. They just lack citizen registration numbers. The KPU and the Home Ministry should work together to make sure that all of them get citizen registration numbers within the next 30 days,' he added.
On Oct.23, the KPU bowed to pressure from political parties that had the backing of the Bawaslu to postpone the publication of the fixed voter list due to data glitches. The Bawaslu gave the KPU two weeks to fix the problem before publishing it on Nov. 4.
The PDI-P insisted on rejecting the final voter list.
'We will challenge the KPU's decision. As of now, I will not disclose what political moves my party will make. Just wait and see,' Arief Wibowo of the PDI-P said on Tuesday.
The KPU has claimed that it could no longer accommodate demands from political parties given the tight electoral schedule.
'Another delay could put the logistics preparation in jeopardy,' said another KPU commissioner, Ferry Kurnia Rizkiyansyah.
Didi Apriadi of Hanura deplored the KPU's decision, saying that the poll body had focused more on the schedule 'rather than the substance' of the elections.
'Another one-week delay to fix the list is better rather than sacrificing the fate of the nation for the next five years [by using an inaccurate list ],' Didi said. (hrl)
