Train Witnesses For The 2024 Election, Bawaslu Wait For PKPU Regarding The Noken System In Papua

Illustration of General Elections (Pemilu) simultaneously in 2024. (Between)

JAKARTA - The General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) said the training for participant witnesses and monitoring of the 2024 General Election was carried out with various anticipations and methods.

"The training of witnesses participating in the election is a mandate from Article 351 paragraph 1 of Law Number 7 of 2017 which is the responsibility of Bawaslu. In this context, witness training is carried out with the point of view of election supervision," said Bawaslu member Herwyn Jefler Hielsa Malonda in a written statement received in Jakarta, Wednesday.

Herwyn said the witness training of the election participants was part of Bawaslu's responsibility, although election participants also had their own training method for witnesses.

Bawaslu also provides training for election monitors as Bawaslu partners.

"We hope that election supervision can be optimized. Training will be continued at the regional, provincial, and district and city levels," he said.

Technically, training for election participant witnesses follows the KPU (PKPU) regulations regarding voting and vote counting.

"After the PKPU is issued, we will follow the basis who will update Perbawaslu Number 1 of 2019. Furthermore, it will be analyzed where there is an election violation," explained Herwyn.

He emphasized that the stages of voting and vote counting are the most important stages in the entire election process because it is the final battle.

"We are also waiting for the PKPU, which regulates the voting and counting of votes in Papua, whether to use a noken system or not. If you use a noken system, the training will be different," he said.

He added that electronic or online-based training is also planned by providing a learning management system (LMS) method and planning a scheme if there is no internet access in an area.

The 2024 election is known to involve 2,749 electoral districts (dapil), the total voter population reaches 204,807,222 people, and polling stations (TPS) reach 823,220. These data include diaspora voters or Indonesian citizens abroad.

The 2024 election was attended by 18 national political parties, namely the National Awakening Party (PKB), Gerindra Party, PDI-P, Golkar Party, NasDem Party, Labor Party, and the Indonesian Gelora Party.

Then, there are the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the Nusantara Awakening Party (PKN), the Hanura Party, the Garuda Party, the National Mandate Party (PAN), the Crescent Star Party (PBB), the Democratic Party, the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), the Perindo Party, the United Development Party (PPP), and the Ummat Party.

The 2024 election was also attended by six local political parties, namely the Aceh Nanggroe Party, the Atjeh Beusaboh Tha'at and Taqwa Generation Party, the Aceh Darul Party, the Aceh Aceh Party, the Aceh Prosperous Justice Party, and the Acehnese People's Independent Solidity Party.

The 2024 General Election is held simultaneously to elect candidates for legislative members as well as the president and vice president on February 14, 2024.

The KPU has also received registrations for three presidential-cawapres candidates, namely Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar, Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, and Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka. The election campaign period is set from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024.