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KPU Jakarta deploys 26,000 officers to verify voters’ data
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Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) chairman Sumarno (center) speaks at a press conference in Jakarta on Friday, announcing that the registration of Jakarta gubernatorial election candidates will take place from Sept. 21 to 23. (JP/Callistasia Anggun Wijaya)
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akarta’s General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) has deployed 26,392 field officers to verify the voters’ data prior to the gubernatorial election to be held on February 15.
The process to update the voter list started on Sept. 8 and is set to end on Oct. 7.
“The officers, who are deployed across the city, are now verifying Jakarta residents’ data from house to house. They will check whether the voters’ data is still correct. After the verification, the officers will affix stickers on residents’ houses,” Sumarno said at his office on Friday.
KPU Jakarta promises to accommodate the voting right of people who do not hold electronic identity cards (e-ID).
About 164,000 people, 2.7 percent of all Jakarta residents, have not yet received e-IDs. Therefore, KPU Jakarta will assist those people in getting a statement from the Jakarta Civil Registry and Population Agency declaring that they are Jakarta residents.
Another KPU Jakarta commissioner, M. Sidik, estimated that there were 8.2 million voters in the capital, but added that number was likely to change, as the KPU was still synchronizing voter data with the 2014 presidential election voter list from the Home Affairs Ministry.
Sidik added KPU Jakarta would focus on updating the data on people evicted from their houses by the city administration. “We still don’t know the exact number of people who have been relocated,” he said. (bbn)
