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Two female candidates top elections in West Kalimantan
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History: Mayoral candidate Tjhai Chui Mie (left) and her husband, Lim Hok Nen (second left), receive their ballots during the voting day in Singkawang, West Kalimantan, on Feb. 15. (JP/Severianus Endi)
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emale candidates that ran for the top posts in Landak regency and Singkawang city, both in West Kalimantan, in the Feb. 15 elections are in the lead, according to vote-counting results conducted by each region’s General Elections Commission (KPU).
The vote is counted based on the voter entry lists and scanned recapitulation documents, also known as C1 forms.
In Singkawang city, with 100 percent of the vote counted, candidate pair Tjhai Chui Mie-Irwan secured 42.60 percent of the vote, followed by Abdul Mutalib-Muhammadin (26.78 percent), Andi Syarif-Nurmansyah (17.13 percent) and Tjhai Nyit Kim-Suriadi (13.50 percent).
Meanwhile, as of 11 a.m. Thursday, the KPU Landak could scan and list C1 forms from 619 out of 1,006 polling stations, or 61.53 percent. Sole candidate pair Karolin Magret Natasa-Heriadi obtained 137,017 votes or 96.21 percent of the vote.
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KPU Singkawang head Ramdan said the scanning process of C1 forms was a transparency measure the commission had committed to, where people could see the number of votes secured by each candidate by accessing pilkada2017.kpu.go.id.
“The final result will be announced after a plenary meeting at the KPU on Feb. 22,” said Ramdan.
For this year’s elections, both Landak and Singkawang made history as it was the first time female candidates ran for regional head positions.
In Singkawang, mayoral candidate Tjhai Chui Mie, who is of Chinese descent, once served as Singkawang Legislative Council speaker. Meanwhile Karolin, the regency candidate in Landak, had served as a House of Representatives member for two periods. (ebf)
