DKI Provincial Government Loans All GORs To KPU For Election Logistics Places

Illustrations-Workers carry out sorting and multiplicating ballots at the Tulungagung KPU, East Java, Tuesday, February 12, 2019. (Between-Desyan Sujarwoko)

Head of the DKI Jakarta Youth and Sports Agency (Dispora) Andri Yansyah said that his party lent all sports arenas (GOR) belonging to the DKI Provincial Government to the General Election Commission (KPU) of DKI Jakarta Province. The GOR, said Andri, will be used by the KPU as a storage area for the 2024 General Election which will be held in the capital city. However, there are 11 GORs that are not used because they are still being revitalized. "Yes, all GORs, except for the GOR which has revitalization this year. So, the revitalization of new buildings is because it has been flat. In the east there are 4 GORs, in the south there are 4 GORs, and at the center there are 3 GORs," Andri told reporters, Tuesday, October 10. Previously, the DKI Provincial Government had conducted a survey with the DKI KPU to check the feasibility of the storage area for the needs of next year's election. After the mapping of the logistics storage location is determined, there are still a number of areas that do not have a logistics place due to the revitalization of the GOR. So, continued Andri, the DKI Provincial Government will look for other assets that can be used by the KPU. "So later we will coordinate with other SKPD (regional work units), whether or not there are provincial government assets that can be used for KPU logistics," explained Andri. Some time ago, the Chairman of the DKI Jakarta KPU Wahyu Dinata and his staff met with the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono to discuss the technical implementation of the 2024 General Election. To Heru, Wahyu admitted that his party did not yet have a place to store election logistics, be it the voting committee documents, ballots, ballot boxes, and other facilities. "That's one of the homeworks that we will talk about again. At least we need 8 thousand square meters. That could be one place or it could be accommodated in several places in districts/cities," Wahyu said when met at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Monday, June 19. Wahyu said that the warehouse covering an area of 8 thousand square meters was needed to accommodate election logistics, starting from the presidential and vice presidential elections (pilpres), as well as candidates for members of the DKI DPR-DPD-DPRD (pileg) which will be held on February 14, 2024. Then, the warehouse will again hold the logistics for the DKI regional head election (pilkada) which will be held on November 27, 2024.

"The point is that we really need the warehouse because there is a logistics transition between the election (pilpres and legislative elections) and regional head elections," he said.