Gadjah Mada University (UGM) community service director Rustamadji said on Friday that the university would send groups of students to help communities prepare for the 2024 general election, as part of the university’s compulsory community service (KKN) program.

“We will deploy 1,403 KKN students to monitor [preparations for] the elections along with 43 field lecturers,” Rustamadji announced on the UGM website.

He added that the program aimed to ensure that communities were prepared to hold and vote in next year’s elections.

The students plan to educate people about “using their voice” to choose their representatives.

Rustmadji said the community service program would start on Dec. 15 and end on Feb. 5 and would include other forms of service beyond general election education.

The country’s voters will have five main choices to make on polling day on Feb. 14, 2024. In addition to the presidential election, there will also be votes for the locality’s representatives in the House of Representatives, Regional Representative Council (DPD), the Provincial Legislative Council and the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD).  

UGM will send the participating students to Yogyakarta, Central Java, West Java, East Java and East Nusa Tenggara, as well as provinces in Sulawesi and some in Sumatra. UGM’s KKN program also provides service related to health, waste management, climate change and disaster mitigation.

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