Jakarta, Nov 7 (Antara) - The General Elections Commission (KPU) has
announced 186.6 million voters are eligible for next year's general
elections, though some 10.4 million of them are still considered
problematic.
On the KPU's eligible voters' list (DPT), some 10.4 million voters
remain problematic because data which they need to become eligible for
voting in the elections is still not complete, such as their citizenship
identity numbers (NIK).
The KPU has decided to use the Home Affairs Ministry's List of
Potential Voters (DP4) as the basis for deciding the DPT for next year's
elections. It officially announced the DPT on Monday, even though some
10.4 million still have problems with the required data, such as the
NIK.
Based on Law No. 8/2012, voters must have a NIK to be eligible for the 2014 general elections.
A researcher of the General Elections and Democracy Association
(Perludem), a poll watchdog, said the General Election Commission should
be transparent about the problem of 10.4 million voters included on the
eligible voters' list.
"The KPU must be open and explain the 10.4 problematic voters. How many
of them have no citizenship identity numbers (NIK), how many have
double registrations and many other problems," Veri Junaidi of the
Perludem said.
Junaidi
said that the KPU explanations would help political party contestants
and the Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) in cleaning up the problems
in the DPT.
"If
the KPU provides explanations, it will help the Bawaslu and the
political parties to correct the mistakes on the eligible voters' list,"
he said.
On Monday, the KPU announced its official DPT which consisted of
186,612,255 eligible voters, with additional 2,010,280 eligible to cast
their ballots from abroad. But the NIKs of some 10.4 million are not
yet clear.
"Actually,
the number of 10.4 million problematic voters has been reduced to only
seven million. We are convinced we will complete the NIKs of some
others. Possibly, we cannot find data except on those who have never
obtained a NIK," KPU commissioner Hadar Nafis Gumay said.
He noted that one of the causes of the problems was that when the
general election officials came to the field to collect data, some did
not provide NIKs because they forgot their NIKs.
"Prisoners, for example, could not give their NIKs when our officials
came to collect data. They only met with prison heads. The same case
also happened with those in boarding schools and students in rented
rooms, where their NIKs are contained on their family cards, which are
kept in their villages," Gumay said.
He said when field officials asked them about their NIKs, they did not
provide them because they had forgotten their NIKs when their family
cards were left at home in the village.
As a result, of the 186 million eligible voters announced on Monday,
some 20.3 million have problematic population data.
The problems included incomplete names, dates of birth, complete
addresses and NIKs. But the data of some of the 20.3 million have been
synchronized with that of the Ministry of Home Affairs. So, now the data
from some 7 million more voters in the DPT still needs to be corrected.
According to General Chairman of the General Election Commission Husni
Kamil Manik, the KPU has been given 30 days to make corrections to the
eligible voters list (DPT).
"We have been given one month's time to make the corrections. The
Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) will later evaluate it. We are now
going to verify it and complete the information on the voters'
Population Registration Numbers (NIK) in the field, along with the
director general for population and civil registration affairs," Husni
Kamil Manik said.
The KPU announced the completion of the eligible voters list during an
open plenary session on Monday, with the number of voters reported at
186,612,255 throughout the country, including 93,439,610 male voters and
93,172,645 female voters.
A total of additional 2,010,280 others are eligible to cast ballots from abroad.
Of the 10.4 million initially considered problematic, the KPU said it
has made corrections and reduced that number to seven million voters.
Of
these seven million voters, the KPU will now check in the field, with
the assistance of the director general for population and civil
registration affairs.
Director General for Population and Civil Registration Affairs Irman
said his office had sent the voters¿ data to regional offices for
coordination with the KPU officials in the districts and municipalities.
"This is important to correct and assure the facts on data elements,
such as the dates of birth, addresses and others. If all are already
checked, we will provide their NIKs, which will be issued by a fast
system," said Irman.
He noted that the data correction on the eligible voters' list was expected to be completed in one month.
National Democratic Party (NasDem) general chairman Surya Paloh late
last month criticized the repeated postponement of the announcement of
the DPT.
"In
the recent plenary meeting of the General Elections Commission (KPU),
it was clear that the DPT could not as yet be declared as fixed. Even
the General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) said that it still has
a problem due to the inaccuracy of data for some 11 million voters.
This is a big problem for us," he said.
Paloh reminded KPU of the importance of seriously preparing for conducting the 2014 general elections.
"NasDem calls on (KPU) to be serious. All parties involved in the
organization must work professionally, seriously, transparently,
accountably and with morality," he said.
The KPU has twice put off the announcement of the DPT. It was initially
scheduled on September 13, 2013, but was later postponed to October 23,
2013. The KPU plenary session on October 23, 2013 was also postponed
again before it decided to officially announce the session on November
4, 2013.
Based on the schedule, the KPU will conduct the legislative election on
April 9 and presidential election on July 9, 2014.***1***
(T.A014/INE/f001)
(EDITED BY INE)
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