Experience Of Spreading COVID-19 Vaccines, TNI Ensures Logistics For The 2024 Election To Reach Small Island

Illustration. Illustration. Distribution of logistics for the 2019 Election to Rimbang Baling Hill, Kampar Riau. (Between)

TNI Commander General Agus Subiyanto said the community complaints command post (Posko) was opened to reach small islands in Indonesia.

This step was taken by the TNI to oversee the implementation of the 2024 General Election so that it could run on time.

"This election logistics must be distributed. Data from the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) there are more than 820,000 polling stations (TPS), just imagine," Agus said after being appointed TNI Commander by President Joko Widodo at the State Palace. Jakarta, Wednesday 22 November, confiscated by Antara.

He said, Indonesia is an archipelagic country that provides challenges in the process of distributing election logistics such as paper and ballot storage boxes.

Based on the experience of the TNI during the COVID-19 pandemic, Agus continued, the process of delivering serum, the COVID-19 vaccine to the smallest islands must be taken using ships, or small boats.

"In the past, the TNI helped the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes). In the end, we had been vaccinating for a long time. In big cities there were no problems, but on the smallest island it had to be on time," he said.

Another challenge in the logistics distribution process for the 2024 General Election is the terrain and weather factors that can affect the travel time of small boats, barges and the like.

"Now we see the rainy season at sea, the weather is not good. At 10.00-12.00 WIB it is cloudy," he said.

In addition to functioning as a monitoring facility for the implementation of the election on time, he said, the TNI Command Post also functions as a complaint place for people who find TNI soldiers to be non-neutral during the 2024 election stage.

The posts are available in all TNI units and offices spread throughout Indonesia. Complaints can also be reported by the public through TNI channels on social media.

"That's why we made these posts so that they don't happen, which people always ask me about the media," he said.