KPU: Voters Who Don't Have E-KTP Can Vote With KK

The General Elections Commission (KPU) ensures that voters who do not have an electronic ID card (e-KTP) but are 17 years old can still exercise their voting rights on voting day for the 2024 General Election by showing a family card (KK).

"He can still (use the right to vote) by using a family card," said KPU member Betty Epsilon Idroos as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 4.

Betty said this was in response to the findings of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) regarding 4,005,275 voters without e-KTP who were included in the final voter list (DPT) of the 2024 General Election.

Previously, the Daily Executive (Plh.) Chairman of Bawaslu Lolly Suhenty said 4,005,275 voters were generally voters who were not even 17 years old at this time and 17-year-old voters but had not yet made an e-KTP.

According to Lolly, the 4 million voters could potentially not vote at the polling station (TPS) on voting day because they did not have an e-KTP.

He explained that Article 348 paragraph (1) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (Pemilu) requires someone who has registered as a voter to show an electronic ID card so that they can vote.

Therefore, Bawaslu asked the KPU to coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) to address the issue. Furthermore, Betty said that his party included voters who are now not 17 years old into the DPT because they will be 17 years old on voting day on February 14, 2024.

A person's determination will be 17 years old on the voting day, he added, referring to the population data for the potential for election voters (DP4) from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the results of field verification by the KPU.

The KPU has determined 204,807,222 voters, both from within and outside the country, who are on the permanent voter list (DPT) for the 2024 General Election. The number of voters in the 2024 General Election DPT consists of 102,218,503 men and 102,588,719 women.