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After a decade with Jokowi at the helm, a much younger crop of voters will have the opportunity to cast their vote and help determine the direction of the country for the next five years.
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Ballot boxes are kept in a room where the portrait of President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo is hung on the wall, at a polling station ahead of the presidential election in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 13, 2024. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
The 2024 general election opens on Wednesday with well-wishes from President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and appeals for a fair and peaceful voting process from the three presidential candidate camps, after organizers concluded the complex logistical preparations to serve the country’s nearly 205 million registered voters.
On Tuesday, Jokowi welcomed the head of his local poll administrator (KPPS) committee, Hamdi Basjar, to the Presidential Palace. Hamdi delivered an official letter to the President and First Lady Iriana indicating that they were to vote at a nearby polling station in Gambir, Central Jakarta.
“[The President] conveyed a message to all KPPS workers throughout the Republic to work honestly, fairly, firmly and carefully so that the election is fair and honest,” he said, as quoted in a Palace statement.
Barred from running for a third presidential term and with eight months left until he steps down, Jokowi did not make a statement on the election and instead held a cabinet meeting to discuss high rice prices.
After 10 years with Jokowi at the helm, a much younger crop of voters will have the opportunity to cast their vote and help determine the direction of the country for the next five years. Vying to succeed Jokowi are former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and former Central Java governor Ganjar Pranowo.
In addition to the presidential election, voters will elect new legislators and regional and local councilors in what has been dubbed one of the world’s largest and most complex single-day elections.
To accommodate voting at such a scale, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has set up 820,161 polling stations across 84 electoral districts throughout the country’s 38 provinces, including the recently formed provinces of South Papua, Central Papua and the Papua Highlands.
