"We will help them cast their ballots as long as they are registered as eligible voters," KPU commissioner Hadar Nafis Gumay told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday. 

Officials at voting booths located near the hospitals will be deployed to assist patients, while the KPU will set up voting booths inside prisons. 

The KPU Jakarta will set up voting booths at four hospitals in the city, namely Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in East Jakarta, Koja Hospital and Pantai Indah Kapuk Hospital in North Jakarta and Siloam Hospital in West Jakarta. 

(Read also: Jakarta gubernatorial election most anticipated event on Wednesday)

In Jakarta, 1,477 registered voters are prisoners of Cipinang Detention Center in East Jakarta and 1,221 registered voters are prisoners of the Cipinang Penitentiary.

Budi Ruswanto, a registration staff member at the Salemba Penitentiary, which currently holds around 1,300 inmates, said, however, that not all of the 163 registered voters in the prison would cast their votes as some of them had been released or transferred to other penitentiaries.  

Six graft suspects are also expected to cast their votes at the headquarters of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Kuningan, South Jakarta, the commission’s spokesperson, Febri Diansyah, said on Tuesday.

"Officials from the polling booths in Setiabudi district will deliver election equipment to the headquarters of the KPK at 10 a.m.," Febri said. (trw)

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