Minister Of Communication And Information Proposes E-Voting In The 2024 Election, Minister Of Home Affairs Tito: Political Parties Prefer Manual

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JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian emphasized that the online voting system or e-voting will not be used in the 2024 General Election.

Even though Indonesia has successfully used e-voting in regional elections, Tito said, there are still many countries that currently prefer to do the voting process manually for national elections. "E-voting for village heads is yes, now the number is small. But at the national level, I want to learn from India, which does e-voting, but many big countries don't want to do e-voting, preferring the manual one," Tito said at the press conference. DPR Building, Senayan, Tuesday, April 5th. Moreover, Tito continued, currently election organizers and political parties also prefer to use the manual system. Because he said, all stages of the election can be monitored directly.

"We see that for now, KPU friends and political parties prefer to use manuals because with manuals everything can be monitored at every stage. Starting from TPS at the sub-district level, everything can be monitored, the numbers move," he explained.

E-voting, added Tito, also has a number of detrimental weaknesses, namely data that is easily changed by hacking. Because of that, many big countries don't use the system like America.

"Why? Because e-voting is prone to hacking, the data is changed. Because everything is digital, right, the data. So many people want to calculate it manually. So America, right, manually," said Tito.

"E-voting is indeed fast, but their friends are afraid that the wrong numbers will happen or they will be hacked and hijacked so that in the end the numbers change, that's about plus and minus," he concluded. Previously, the Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Jhonny G Plate proposed voting for the 2024 General Elections to be conducted online or by e-voting. Johnny made this suggestion during a working meeting with Commission I of the DPR on Tuesday, March 22. Recently, the Minister of Communication and Information alluded to free and fair online elections through the e-voting system that has been implemented in Estonia. He then pushed for the 2024 general election in Indonesia to also use e-voting.

"Through free, fair and secure online voting, as well as through an e-vote or internet voting system. Estonia has been doing it since 2005 and it already has digital voting systems at the city, state and EU level that have been used by 46.7 percent of the population. So it's not new, including the KPU has been preparing for it for a long time," Johnny said in his statement, Thursday, March 24.