KPU Reveals That The 2024 Pilkada Election Distribution Is 50 Percent
Chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Mochamad Afifuddin said the distribution of national ballots for the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Head Election (Pilkada) had reached 50 percent.
He explained that the distribution of ballots had been carried out since a few days ago by printing stations in a number of Indonesian areas that had been appointed by the KPU to produce election ballots.
"If the distribution is above 50 percent and this is in accordance with the targeted time," said Afifuddin after visiting a ballot printing factory in Surabaya, East Java, Thursday, October 17, which was confiscated by Antara.
Afif said that for printing ballots in a number of factories, such as in the city of Surabaya and Pasuruan Regency, it had also been running above 60'70 percent so some had already been sent. In fact, especially for the outermost areas, almost 100 percent have been sent.
He added that checking the printing of ballots was carried out regularly by the KPU to ensure that distribution could be carried out immediately.
"We came directly to the printing house to ensure that everything was done in accordance with what was planned, qualifying, and as much as possible," he said.
Especially for areas where candidate pairs change due to certain conditions, such as death, the KPU will take policies in accordance with applicable regulations.
"There are also things related to the follow-up situation, for example, in Central Papua where one of the deputy governor candidates died. This is another situation, surely later we will take policies according to the rules," said the former democracy activist.
Meanwhile, during his visit to East Java, the Chairman of the Indonesian KPU Mochamad Afifuddin checked the two locations that produced ballots, namely a factory owned by PT Antar Surya Jaya and PT Inpera Pratama Indonesia, each of which was located in Surabaya City and Pasuruan Regency.
The two factories are KPU partners to produce ballots in a number of parts of Indonesia, including South Sulawesi, West Kalimantan, Central Papua, Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, and East Nusa Tenggara.