Unrest Prevention, KPU Accommodates Voters in Gray Areas

April 08 2014 11:52 AM 1756
Reported by Erna Martiyanti | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata

Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU) ensures that the residents living in gray areas will still be able to use their voting rights in the legislative election on upcoming April 9 as well as presidential election on June. Later, polling stations (TPS) will be built in some gray areas.

We will open polling stations in gray areas

“We will open polling stations in gray areas,” stated Jakarta KPU Head, Sumarno, Monday (4/7).

Based on the data, there are thousands of people living in those gray areas. In North Jakarta, for instance, there at least 44 thousand people living in gray areas there, namely Kampong Beting Remaja, Tugu Utara Urban Village (2,994 people), Tanah Merah, Rawabadak Selatan Urban Village, and Kelapa Gading Barat, Tugu Selatan Urban Village (35,000 people), and Kampong Sawah, Semper Urban Village (7,000 people).

KPU: Citizens Outside Jakarta Can Still Vote in Jakarta

“In addition, there are also people living in gray area around BMW Park. While in East Jakarta, gray area is located at Tanah Galian. The data of those people have been recorded, thus they could use their voting rights during election. So, don’t worry,” he uttered.

During data collection process, KPU was coordinating with Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Department. To ease the process, RTs/RWs were formed in those gray areas. This is based on Jakarta Governor’s approval.

Regarding legislative election on April 9, KPU ensures that all preparations are almost completed. At this time, KPU is still distributing invitation cards to the voters. However, all logistics have been distributed until to urban village level. And on D-1 or April 8, those logistics will be distributed to polling stations.