Flood-Prone Voting Day, KPU Builds 24 Stage TPS In Pekalongan

Pekalongan City KPU set up a stage polling station in flood-prone areas. (ANTARA/HO-Humas Pekalongan City)

The General Election Commission (KPU) has prepared 24 stationary polling stations (TPS) at a number of flood-prone points spread across four sub-districts in Pekalongan City, Central Java (Central Java).

Head of the Technical Division for the Implementation of the KPU Pekalongan City, Saiful Amri, said the consideration of making this stage TPS was because it was estimated that the 2024 simultaneous regional elections would coincide with the rainy season so that it was prone to flooding.

"Therefore, we need to establish a stage TPS so that logistics are safe and voters are not disturbed when they are going to vote," he said in Pekalongan, Tuesday, November 12, which was confiscated by Antara.

According to him, the design of the polling station is not much different from that of ordinary polling stations and is only different in the form of a stage as a form of anticipation of floods and tidal waves during the vote, November 27, 2024.

Flood-prone areas in the four sub-districts are West Pekalongan, North Pekalongan, East Pekalongan and South Pekalongan sub-districts.

Meanwhile, the details of the 24 stage polling stations prepared include 3 polling stations in North District, four polling stations in South Pekalongan District, 11 stage polling stations in the West Pekalongan District, and six stage polling stations in the East District.

Saiful Amri said that his party carried out mitigation of areas that were expected to be disaster-prone and proposed a stage TPS.

"We will facilitate refugees by picking up the ball if there is a disaster vulnerability. If you can't use the stage TPS, it can shift to one point to another that is safe," he said.