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Election preparations nearly complete
The election commission has intensified briefings on the ground.
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Workers load boxes containing election materials onto a truck at a warehouse belonging to the Jember General Elections Commission in East Java on Tuesday. (Antara/Seno)
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he General Elections Commission (KPU) has been delivering the last batch of election materials to 809,500 polling stations across the country and overseas and holding briefings for field workers and volunteers in the hope of minimizing glitches in what observers have called the world’s most complex election.
Some 192 million people are eligible to vote for president and vice president, as well as legislative members at different levels in the concurrent elections on April 17.
Some regions have begun distributing the materials to polling stations (TPS), while others are still waiting for deliveries.
Manggarai subdistrict on Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara, is still waiting for new ballots to replace about 144,000 damaged ballots from the central KPU.
"To this day, KPU Manggarai has not received additional ballots from the KPU head office," KPU Manggarai head Albertus Effendi told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Albertus said that while waiting for replacement ballots, KPU Manggarai had begun packing election materials to be distributed later to the district offices, district elections committees (PPK) and to polling stations.
“The delivery process, especially to areas on smaller islands, will depend on the weather," he said.
