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Jokowi's camp up ante against Prabowo's ‘real count’ claim
The Jokowi camp has just invited the public to access its "war room".
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The great wait: A TV cameraman and a reporter work in front of a large screen showing the ongoing results of the 2019 election vote count, which uses the vote count information system (situng) at the General Elections Commission (KPU) headquarters in Jakarta on Sunday. The vote count is being carried out at the subdistrict, district, city, provincial and then national levels from April 25 to May 23. (The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
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s tensions intensified between incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and challenger Prabowo Subianto over the expected election results, the rival camps scrambled on their own to prove that their respective candidate was the rightful winner of the poll.
The Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin ticket, which is predicted to win the election as shown by the quick-count results, has even decided to up the ante against Prabowo’s victory claims, as the campaign team publicly opened their own process of final vote counting.
The campaign team also alleged that Prabowo, who had declared himself the new president, citing his own camp’s internal real count, has manipulated the public by not using complete data on the vote counts.
Jokowi’s camp has employed around 250 people working on three different shifts, 24 hours every day to count the C1 vote tally forms from polling stations across the country in a “war room”, located in Gran Melia hotel in South Jakarta.
The room, which featured TV screens showing real-time vote counting, is open for everyone who wants to monitor the real vote count, Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin campaign team executive Moeldoko said.
“We have nothing to hide here and we want everything to be open, so there won’t be doubts or skepticism anymore [...] our mechanism and standards for the real count are also accountable,” Moeldoko said on Sunday.
Similar to the real count by the General Elections Commission (KPU), the team working in the facility counts votes based on a digitized version of the C1 forms, which record the final vote count of each polling station at the district level, from hundreds of thousands of polling booths across Indonesia.
