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Ballots for Jakarta election have been printed: Election commission
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Workers haul boxes of ballots for the Jakarta gubernatorial election at printing company PT Adi Perkasa in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Jan. 17. More than 7.2 million ballot papers are ready to be distributed for Jan. 22. (Antara/Yusran Uccang)
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he Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) said on Thursday the ballot papers for the Feb. 15 gubernatorial election had finished being printed.
The total number of ballot papers printed reached 7,292,619, which included 7,108,589 ballots for the fixed-voters list (DPT), an additional 2.5 percent of ballots for each polling station and an extra 2,000 for reserve.
KPU Jakarta head Sumarno said that the ballots, which were printed by PT Adi Perkasa, in Makassar, South Sulawesi, a company which earlier won the printing tender, were still on their way via sea freight to KPU Jakarta.
"We hope to receive the ballots by the end of this week. We've targeted to distribute the ballots to KPU branches in five municipalities by the end of January," Sumarno told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
Sumarno said the municipal KPU branches would examine the ballots to see whether there were any damages. If damaged ballots were to be discovered, KPU Jakarta would ask Adi Perkasa to send replacements.
Meanwhile, the municipal branches would invite the public to help fold the ballots for the election, he said.
He also ensured that the ballots could not be duplicated because they had been printed with a special micro-printed text.
"The ballots contain micro text that can only be read by us. We will know if people try to duplicate the ballots," he said. (evi)
