South Tangerang KPU Ensures Residents With Police Detainees Can Use Their Choices In The 2024 Election

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TANGERANG - The General Election Commission (KPU) of South Tangerang (Tangsel) has confirmed that residents who are police detainees in their area can still exercise their voting rights in the upcoming 2024 General Election.

The South Tangerang KPU commissioner for the data and information planning division, Widya Victoria, said that the police detainees who can choose must first be registered with the Additional Voters (DPTb).

Later the detainees will vote through the mechanism of the Voting Committee (KPPS).

"So later KPPS officers will be accompanied by witnesses and TPS supervisors who will come to the Polsek or Polres to the detainees for a vote," said Widya when confirmed, Sunday, February 11.

Widya explained that the ballot given later depends on the domicile of the police detainee. If later the detainee is still in the same sub-district, then it is entitled to receive five types of electoral ballots.

"But for example, there are residents who live from other provinces who are then detained in South Tangerang, the detainees only get one type of presidential ballot," he said.

For information, 85 residents in Tangsel City are involved in legal crimes with the status of police and police officers.

The 57 detainees were scattered in the South Tangerang Police, Pamulang 2 Police, Serpong 7 Police, Ciputat 10 Police and 9 Pondok Aren Police.