Dominated By Millennials And Gen Z, How Many Beginner Voters In The 2024 Election?

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YOGYAKARTA Indonesia will hold a general election (Pemilu) on February 14, 2024. This is believed to be the biggest democratic party held within one day, and what is interesting is the high number of novice voters in the 2024 election.

So, who is the novice voter? How many novice voters in the 2024 election? Check out the full information below.

According to the Election Law Chapter IV Article 198 Paragraph (1), novice voters are Indonesian citizens who on voting day are even 17 years old or older, or have been / have been married, who have the right to vote and previously did not include voters because of the provisions of the Election Law.

Meanwhile, according to the General Elections Commission (KPU), novice voters are those who will enter the age of voting and will exercise their voting rights for the first time in the election.

With the election cycle in Indonesia held every five years, the range of age for novice voters is 17-21 years.

Quoted from the KPUD page of Malang Regency, novice voters generally still sit in high school (SMA) or equivalent and those who are studying in higher education. Apart from that, children who drop out of school aged 17-21 years are also the basis of novice voters who require socialization and voter education.

Beginner voters with student status are an important element in the structure and dynamics of politics and democracy.

Beginner voters have great potential as a driver of change because they have a wide horizon or horizon between the community. Students as a group that will enter the upper layers of the power structure, economic structure and prestige in society are themselves elite among the younger generation.

Based on KPU data, the 2024 election will be attended by 204,807,222 voters from five generations, namely the pre- boomer generation, baby boomer generation, generation X, Generation Y (millennial), and generation Z. The number of voters covers 74% of the total population of Indonesia.

The details, as many as 3,570,850 or 1.74 percent of voters are pre-boomer generation or people born before 1944.

Next, 28,127,340 or 13.73 percent of voters are the baby boomer generation (born 1944-1964).

Voters from generation X or people born in 1965 to 1979 were 57,486,482 or 28.07 percent of the total voters.

Voters from the millennial generation were 66,822,389 people or 33.60 percent. The millennial generation is the designation for people born in 1980 to mid-1990s.

While the rest, namely 46,800,161 or 22.85 percent of voters are generation Z, born between the mid-1990s and the first decade of millennials. Some of generation Z voters are beginner voters.

In total, voters from the millennial generation and Z amounted to 113,622,550 people. The number of young voters dominated because it reached 56.45 percent of the total voters.

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