Regarding The Readiness For The 2024 Presidential Election, KPU: We Are Making Plans, One Of Which Is If The COVID-19 Pandemic Still Occurs

Illustration of citizens exercising their right to vote. (Photo: Bayu Pratama S/Antara)

JAKARTA - The General Elections Commission remains aware of the potential situation that Indonesia is not yet free from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic holding the 2024 General Election. KPU member, Viryan, in the webinar "Readiness and anticipation of organizers in the 2024 General Election and Pilkada, COVID-19 pandemic scenario" in Jakarta Thursday , said he hoped that the 2024 simultaneous elections would be free from the pandemic situation.

"We have made plans from the start, one of which is making options if the pandemic still occurs," he said. In summary, he said, the KPU will implement the election implementation model that has been successfully implemented in the 2020 simultaneous regional head elections. adapt to the pandemic so that elections can be carried out properly. "What will the future look like, of course our prayers with the pandemic will not reach 2023, if you look at the cycle of the Spanish flu pandemic at the beginning of the 20th century, it was approximately 2-3 years," he said.

Meanwhile, according to him, the COVID-19 pandemic has been going on since 2019, which when referring to the Spanish flu cycle, it is hoped that the Covid-19 pandemic will end in 2022. "Hopefully it will be finished this year, or early next year, if this can be realized then we can focus on the non-pandemic aspects of Covid-19," he said. "We don't know that the three-year cycle of the Spanish flu pandemic is not necessarily the same, so even though we are also successful in 2020, we remain on high alert," he said.