Atikoh Asks Young People To Check Track Record For Leader Candidates Before Choosing

Siti Atikoh/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

BANYUWANGI - Siti Atikoh, who is the wife of the presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo, asked young people to exercise their voting rights on February 14. They must vote on a trustworthy leader so that checking track records or track records becomes an obligation.

"For young voters, it's time for friends, younger siblings, my children to contribute to Indonesia's development in the next five years," Atikoh told reporters at the Bumi Sroyo Foundation Hall, Banyuwangi, East Java, Wednesday, January 24.

The foresight to find a leader needs to be shown by young people. "Let's use the right to vote, determine a good leader, who is trustworthy, look at the track record," said Atikoh.

"Then we can determine who is the most suitable for younger siblings to choose from," he continued.

Atikoh also emphasized that young people must remind their families and friends to come to the polling station (TPS). Because one voice is very influential for the future of the nation and state," he said.

It is known that the General Elections Commission (KPU) has set a permanent voter list (DPT) for the 2024 Pemilu. The number reaches 204,807,222 voters.

Of this figure, 55 percent of them are generation Z and millennials. Meanwhile, voters from generation Z were 46,800,161 voters or 22.85 percent of the total DPT for the 2024 General Election.

In addition, there is a voter group from generation X which follows in the next place, namely 57,486,482 or 28.07 percent of the total voters. Generation X is a person born in 1965 to 1979.

The rest came from the pre-boomer generation group, or people born before 1944 with a total of 3,570,850 or 1.74 percent of voters.