KPU Calls New Model Of 2024 Election Ballots Can Reduce Logistics Budget

JAKARTA - Chairman of the General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, Ilham Saputra, revealed that his party made a new simplified and more efficient ballot design for the 2024 election.

Ilham said that there were two new models of ballots that were simulated by the KPU, namely 2 ballots and 3 ballots. Previously in the 2019 Simultaneous Elections, the KPU used 5 ballots for each type of election.

Ilham said that this new model of the ballot could save logistics costs. This is because the number of ballots received by voters will decrease. Likewise, the ballot box follows the number of types of ballot selection.

This was conveyed by Ilham when the KPU held a simulation of voting and vote counting with a simplified design of ballot papers and forms for the 2024 General Election.

"This should save the budget related to logistics. This can (save) 50 to 60 percent of logistics costs because the number of ballots is reduced because it is simplified", said Ilham at KPU office, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, March 22.

However, Ilham emphasized that the KPU would still propose the 2024 election budget with a total of IDR 76 trillion. This is because the simplification of the ballot model has already been included in the KPU's calculations.

Moreover, in organizing the political contestation in 2024, the KPU proposed an increase in the honorarium for the voting group (KPPS) as an ad hoc body recruited during the election.

"In this period, we also have to increase the salaries of our officers, ad hoc bodies. There are millions of our officers. Of our budget, 54 percent of it is for the honorarium of the organizers and it makes sense to increase it", he said.