The DKI KPU Finds 677 Damaged 2024 Election Voice Letters, From Investigating, Steering To Robek

The General Election Commission (KPU) of DKI Jakarta found that as many as 677 votes from the DPR RI and the DKI DPRD for the 2024 General Election (Pemilu) were damaged.

"We found 156 ballots from the DPR of the Republic of Indonesia and 521 ballots from the DKI DPRD were damaged," said Head of the DKI Jakarta KPU Planning and Logistics Division Nelvia Gustina when contacted in Jakarta, Thursday, January 4, confiscated by Antara.

Nelvia explained that the damaged ballots had different levels of damage, ranging from being found tangled, torn, to tearing, so that they needed destruction so as not to be misused.

The different damage depends on the increasing number that must be sorted so that the number of damaged is likely to increase.

The extermination activity, he continued, was based on the General Election Commission Decree Number 1395 of 2023 concerning Technical Guidelines for General Election Logistics Governance.

One of them is a damaged ballot so that it can be destroyed with three procedures for the decision.

"The three procedures were carried out h-1 before the voting day, witnessed by the Police and Bawaslu Regency/City and made news of the extermination event," he explained.

The DKI Jakarta KPU has received 14.9 million DPR and DKI DPRD ballots for the 2024 General Election.

In addition, his party also sorted and folded 1.4 million votes from the DPR and the DKI DPRD for the 2024 election.

The KPU has also set a campaign period from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024. Then the voting schedule is on February 14, 2024.

Previously, the Head of the DKI Jakarta KPU Planning and Logistics Division, Nelvia Gustina, in Jakarta, detailed that 1,496,486 ballots that had been sorted were 1,295,330 DKI DPRD ballots with 521 damaged and 1,294,809 good as needed.

Meanwhile, the DPR's ballots counted at 201,156 with 156 damaged and 201,000 good as needed.