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Election trail: Students raise awareness on blank box
The Landak General Elections Commission (KPU Landak) in West Kalimantan is partnering with students from Pamane Talino School of Pedagogy and Education in Landak to help raise people’s awareness about sole-ticket elections
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he Landak General Elections Commission (KPU Landak) in West Kalimantan is partnering with students from Pamane Talino School of Pedagogy and Education in Landak to help raise people’s awareness about sole-ticket elections.
This year, 10 regions, including Landak regency, are set to see candidates run uncontested in the 2017 regional elections, which will be held simultaneously on Feb. 15 in 101 cities, regencies and provinces across Indonesia.
The first time sole candidacies were seen was in the first simultaneous regional elections in 2015.
KPU Landak head Lomon said many Landak people wrongly believed that a sole candidate would win an election no matter what and that there was no point in voting if their preference was not the sole candidate.
“We have visited students and briefed them about the problems surrounding sole candidacy and asked them to help spread the right information to prevent low voter turnout,” Lomon told The Jakarta Post.
He added that the students were equipped with materials about the election mechanism in regions with sole tickets.
