71,396 Personnel Deployed To Guard The Voting Of The Jakarta Regional Head Election

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A total of 71,396 personnel were deployed in the scheme to secure the voting event related to the 2024 Jakarta Regional Head Election (Pilkada).

Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Ade Ary Syam Indradi said the security personnel were a combination of Polda Metro Jaya, Polres ranks, TNI, Provincial Government (Pemprov) and the Masyaraka Protection Unit (Linmas).

"A total of 71,396 personnel combined," said Ade to reporters, Monday, November 25.

In the security scheme, tens of thousands of personnel will be deployed to 32,570 polling stations (TPS) in all areas of Jakarta.

Speaking of TPS, Ade explained that his party divided it into four categories, ranging from less vulnerable, vulnerable, very vulnerable, and special.

For polling stations that are categorized as very vulnerable, there are six of them are in East Jakarta and one is in the Thousand Islands.

The six polling stations are categorized as very vulnerable because of two factors, namely sociodemography and geography.

literally, sociodemography means population change related to these components of change, such as birth, death, and migration. The result is the state and composition of the population according to age and gender.

While the geographical term is related to the location of an area on earth and is related to geography.

"Is the category very vulnerable? There are two, the first is related to sociodemography, the second is related to geographical factors," he said.

Then, for TPS with a special category of 47. Ade explained that dozens of polling stations were categorized specifically because they were in detention centers scattered in the police office, ranging from police, police, and regional police.

"We have secured 47 special polling stations," said Ade.

Meanwhile, the voting will be held on November 27, 2024. Then, it will be followed by counting votes and recapitulation until December 16, 2024.