Ministry Of Home Affairs Doubts KPU Data About The Drastic Drop In Voters Who Have Not Recorded E-KTP: Illogical

KPU Building (Irfan Meidianto / KPU)

JAKARTA - The Director General of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri), Zudan Arif Fakhrullah, doubts the data from the General Election Commission (KPU) regarding voter data for the 2020 Pilkada has not recorded e-KTP records experiencing a drastic decline.

On Thursday, November 12, KPU commissioner Viryan Aziz revealed that 1.75 million voters had not recorded their electronic ID cards. This figure is drastically reduced from the data on Tuesday, September 27, which said there were still 20.7 voters who had not recorded.

"I still have doubts about the figure, Pak Viryan Aziz, the Commissioner of the KPU. It used to be 20 million, last week it dropped 2.7 million, this week 1.7 million," Zudan said in his statement, Friday, November 13.

Zudan wondered why the KPU did not coordinate in advance regarding the development of voter data that had not recorded e-KTP.

According to him, the KPU should have coordinated and matched the data with the database in the Dukcapil before releasing the data. The data from the KPU must be matched with the Population Administration Information System (SIAK).

"The Dukcapil routinely performs 'breached' data. However, the figure does not reach 18 million recordings in 1 month. So it is illogical if there is data from the KPU that the number of people who have not recorded has dropped dramatically from 20 million to 1.7 million," he said Zudan.

"It means, in one month there is a recording of more than 18 million people. That is impossible in this pandemic," he continued.

Moreover, said Zudan, the number of residents to be recorded was not that much. Currently, from 196,394,976 people who are obliged to e-KTP, the number of people who already have KTP is 192,468,599 people.

This means that the percentage of residents who already have e-KTP is 98 percent. The remaining two percent or 3,926,377 residents have not recorded their e-KTP data.