Questioned By Witness Anies, KPU Affirms Number Of DPK 13,037 People Still Normal

Screenshot - Chairman of the West Papua Provincial KPU Paskalis Semunya (center) during the plenary meeting to recapitulate the results of calculating the vote acquisition for the 2024 General Election at the national level at the Indonesian KPU Office, Jakarta, Wednesday (13/3/2024). BETWEEN

JAKARTA - KPU member Idham Holik said the number of special voters (DPK) in West Papua which reached 13,037 people was classified as normal.

This was conveyed by Idham when the witness of the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair number 1 Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar questioned the reason for the higher number of DPKs than the additional voter list (DPTb) which was around 4,071 people in the plenary meeting to recapitulate the results of the national vote at the KPU office, Jakarta.

He explained that if the number of DPK 13,037 people was percentageed with the number of DPT as many as 385,465 people, then the percentage reached 3.38 percent of DPK who exercised their voting rights on voting day.

According to Idham, based on his experience of checking DPK in various regions of Indonesia, there are still areas whose percentage reaches 6 percent.

Therefore, he assessed that the 3.38 percent figure was still normal for DPK in various regions of Indonesia.

"According to my experience and to my knowledge, I checked the DPK in various regions in Indonesia, some even reached 6 percent. This means that personally I scored 3.38 percent or 13,037 voters, basically still within a normal range for DPK in various regions in Indonesia," explained Idham as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, March 13.

Nevertheless, continued Idham, the opinion of witness Anies-Muhaimin will be a special note for the KPU in the process of updating the voter list for the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Head Election.

"Please note, yes, the chairman and members," he said.

He said voters who enter the DPK must later be inputted and managed properly. This is so that those who were previously in the DPK group enter the DPT.

"This DPK will ask for input, managed properly, so that later when updating the voter list for the benefit of the regional elections later, they will become DPT and not become DPK anymore," said Idham.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the West Papua Provincial KPU Paskalis Semunya said the number of DPKs which reached 13 thousand was the accumulation of 1,923 polling stations (TPS).

"If the average is 5 to 6 and the accumulation of the final number is 13 thousand with this amount," said Paskalis.

He assessed that the data updating process had been carried out optimally and seriously. Paskalis also appreciated people who still brought ID cards to be served and recorded so that they could exercise their voting rights.

The number of voters registered at the DPT in West Papua Province was 385,465 people. Of the DPT figures, the number of people who exercise their voting rights is 319,595 people.

Then there were 4,071 people who exercised their voting rights from the DPTb, and 13,037 people who exercised their voting rights from the DPK.

The number of users with the right to vote, male 170,333 people, while female 166,370 people. If totaled it reached 336,703 people.