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Two regions to go before official election results announced
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General Elections Commission (KPU) chair Hasyim Asy'ari (top, third left) attends a meeting to tally the February 2024 election results at the KPU office in Jakarta on March 18, 2024. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)
On the eve of the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) Wednesday deadline for the announcement of the 2024 presidential election results, the poll body had finished assessing returns from 36 of the country’s 38 provinces, with Papua and the Papua Highlands the only two remaining.
The results for the two easternmost provinces were to be finalized on Wednesday morning so that the KPU could announce the official results of last month’s election later in the day.
The poll body, which has been racing to finish the tiered tabulation process, certified the returns from West Java and Maluku on Tuesday.
West Java, with the biggest voter roll of any province, saw unusually slow returns owing to a protracted tabulation process in Bekasi regency that had caused concern that the poll body could miss its Wednesday announcement deadline.
The Tuesday tabulation of Maluku and West Java’s returns followed three other meetings the KPU had held since Sunday night to certify the returns from Central Papua and Southwest Papua, as well as from the Kuala Lumpur overseas election committee, which held a revote on March 10.
With 36 provinces and all of the overseas voting accounted for, the KPU’s central office still needs to certify the returns from Papua and the Papua Highlands before it can announce the final results.
The poll body had initially planned to do so on Tuesday night, but the tabulation did not finish on time as a result of “technical difficulties”, according to KPU central office commissioner Idham Holik.
