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Thousands of inmates in Jakarta not registered to vote with deadline passed
The Jakarta General Elections Commission had sent a letter to the General Elections Commission to address the issue of unregistered voters, but the deadline for registration has now passed.
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A printing company employee checks the color quality of ballots for April’s presidential election in Jakarta. (The Jakarta Post/Dhoni Setiawan )
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s many as 8,722 inmates in prisons across Jakarta might not be able to vote in the general election on April 17.
Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) commissioner Partono said that, according to the national e-ID records as of Jan. 17, 11,028 inmates in Jakarta had identity cards and family cards.
Of the figure, 8,801 of them are listed on the final voter list (DPT) while 2,227 are not. Meanwhile, 6,495 people have neither an identity nor a family card and are thus automatically not listed.
"We can't do our service. They might not be able to vote," Partono said on Wednesday as quoted by antaranews.com.
He said he had sent a letter to the General Elections Commission (KPU) to address the problem, but no response was given as of the writing of this story.
"I don't know. We've asked the KPU about what we should do with inmates who might lose their right to vote," Partono said, adding that there was nothing to do because the Wednesday deadline for finalizing the DPT had passed.
The KPU Jakarta prepared 28 polling stations to accommodate inmates in the capital. (vla)
