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KPU calls for immediate disbursement of this year’s remaining election funds
Only days before the political parties' registration for the 2024 general election opens, the government has yet to disburse all the necessary election funds to election organizers, prompting concerns that the electoral process would therefore be hindered.
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Officials prepare ballot boxes and other voting materials in Jakarta ahead of the 2019 presidential and legislative elections. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
Only days before the political parties’ registration for the 2024 general election opens, the government has yet to disburse all the necessary election funds to election organizers, prompting concerns that the election process would therefore be hindered.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) has been calling for an immediate disbursement to the remaining election funds allocated in this year’s state budget. It has so far only received Rp 2.4 trillion (US$160 million) of the total of Rp 8.06 trillion for organizing a series of early stages of the 2024 presidential and legislative elections this year.
“[The government] needs to find ways to accelerate the disbursement immediately,” KPU-commissioner Betty Idroos said. “We hope that there will be policies and actions for this to happen."
