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Jakarta elections commission to engage public in sorting, folding ballots
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Getting prepared -- Students of SMA Cikal Amri Cipayung state senior high school in East Jakarta hold an election simulation at the Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU) on Jan.19. (Antara/Reno Esnir)
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he Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) is set to engage the city’s residents in sorting and folding 7.2 million ballots for the upcoming gubernatorial election scheduled for Feb. 15.
KPU Jakarta commissioner M. Fadlilah said KPU offices in five municipalities and Thousand Islands regency would be given the authority to recruit residents get involved in the sorting and folding of ballots for the Jakarta election.
Each KPU office will be able to determine the number of recruited workers by considering the number of ballots it receives, he further said.
“We expect the sorting and folding process to be complete within the next seven to 10 days," Fadlilah told The Jakarta Post on Monday. He added that KPU Jakarta had allocated Rp 150 (1.5 US cents) for each ballot sorted and folded by the residents.
(Read also: KPU Jakarta ready to distribute 7.2 million ballots)
Separately, KPU Central Jakarta logistics working unit head, Yose Rizal, said the commission had recruited 30 people to sort and fold about 766,000 ballots.
He said residents were expected to work eight hours a day when the process began on Tuesday. “We estimate each resident can fold 5,000 ballots per day. We hope that next week we will have finished sorting and folding the ballots," Yose said at the KPU Central Jakarta warehouse on Jl. Kalibaru Timur, Senen, on Monday.
The sorting and folding process will be supervised by several staff members from KPU Central Jakarta, he added. (ebf)
