KPU Calls Only 0.12 Percent Of The 2024 Election Voice Letter Damaged

Illustration of ballots (ANTARA)

The General Election Commission (KPU) said as many as 0.12 percent of the number of ballots damaged or unfit for use after sorting throughout Indonesia.

This amount is based on data obtained from his staff at the regional level as of Monday, January 15.

"Yes, yesterday the data (the ballot was damaged) was running, the process then the data per day yesterday, a total of 0.12 percent," said KPU Commissioner Yulianto Sudrajat, Tuesday, January 16.

According to Yulianto, this number is low when compared to the total number of ballots in the 2024 Simultaneous Elections. Moreover, he said, his staff immediately made an official report regarding the damaged ballots with Bawaslu and the local Police to be replaced immediately.

"Friends have made an official report about ballots that are not appropriate or damaged, then they have been coordinated with service providers for replacement," he said.

"Even now it has started to be replaced and has started to be sent back to the regency/city KPU. Precisely with the function of the sorting, we found ballots that were not feasible or damaged and then we documented them and we presented them," Yulianto added.

Yulianto emphasized that the replacement of ballots is the responsibility of the logistics service provider for the 2024 General Election. This has been stated in the contract clause with the service provider.

"It has been immediately replaced because it can be in the contract clause, right, the broken ballot letter was replaced by the service provider, that's part of the contract clause," concluded Yulianto.

Previously, Yulianto said that his party would print more than 1.2 billion ballots for the 2024 General Election. The ballot includes the presidential and vice presidential and legislative elections at the central and regional levels. Exclusion occurs for DKI Jakarta voters who only get four types of ballots. This is because DKI voters do not choose candidates for members of the district/city level DPRD.

"1,208,921,320 pieces. Each voter gets five types of ballots, from presidential and vice-presidential candidates to district/city DPRD candidates," said Yulianto Sudrajat at the Indonesian KPU Office, Jakarta, Wednesday (20/9/2023).

If you refer to the total number of ballots that were damaged as much as 0.12 percent of 1.2 billion, then the number of ballots damaged was 145 million pieces.