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KPU stops publishing preliminary vote count on Sirekap
“The publication of the preliminary vote count has been stopped, so the public will now only be receiving more certain information regarding the results of the general election,” KPU commissioner Idham Holik told the Post on Wednesday.
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General Elections Commission (KPU) chair Hasyim Asy'ari shows a partial vote tally for the 2024 presidential election at a press briefing at the commission’s building in Jakarta on Feb. 27, 2024. (Antara/Asprilla Dwi Adha)
The General Elections Commission (KPU) has stopped publicly presenting the preliminary vote tally for the 2024 general election and associated graphics on its online platform the Tabulation Information System (Sirekap) following weeks of complaints from political parties and observers about the application’s shortcomings and errors.
The elections body decided to stop sharing the preliminary results on Tuesday night. When The Jakarta Post accessed the platform on Wednesday afternoon, the website showed only photographed manual vote tabulation forms, known as C1 forms, uploaded by poll administrators from the country’s 820,000 polling stations.
KPU commissioner Idham Holik said the body had chosen to focus solely on “publishing the official results of the election based on tiered tabulation”.
“The publication of the preliminary vote count has been stopped, so the public will now only be receiving more certain information regarding the results of the general election,” he told the Post on Wednesday.
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Ahead of voting day on Feb. 14, the KPU presented the Sirekap application as a way for the public to monitor the vote tabulation process before the poll body announced the official results of the presidential and legislative elections in March.
The online platform converted the figures from the photographed C1 forms into digital data to be viewed by the public. The website later began presenting the preliminary results in charts.
