The Consignment Meeting Agrees On The 2024 Election Not To Use E-Voting

JAKARTA - The results of the consignment meeting between Commission II of the DPR, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and election organizers namely the KPU, Bawaslu, and DKPP agreed that the 2024 Election has not used voting technology using electronic devices (e-voting) because the infrastructure is still uneven.

Therefore, the voting system still uses the method used during the previous election period in 2019.

"Because the infrastructure in regencies and cities, especially outside Java, related to the internet, is not sufficient, we finally decided that the issue of digitalization and regulation will not change from the implementation of the 2019 General Election," said DPR Commission II member Guspardi Gaus, quoted by Antara, Saturday, May 14.

The same information was also conveyed by Member of Commission II DPR Rifqi Karsayuda. He explained that the discourse on the use of "e-voting" had rolled around, but the parties understood that the supporting technology was not evenly distributed throughout Indonesia.

"The e-voting discourse will not be used in 2024 with various considerations, one of which is the uneven distribution of infrastructure technology in Indonesia and various other things that must be prepared," said Rifqi.

Although the 2024 Election does not use "e-voting", the vote recapitulation process uses the Recapitulation Information System (Sirekap). The electronic/digital-based system was used by the KPU during the 2020 Pilkada in 270 provinces, regencies and cities.

Commission II of the DPR, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri), the General Elections Commission (KPU), the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), and the Election Organizing Honorary Council (DKPP) held a consignment from Friday (13/5) to Saturday morning to discuss a number of election issues. , including those related to the budget, campaign period, technical dispute resolution, logistics procurement, and election digitization.

However, the result of the consignment meeting is not an official agreement or decision, because the conclusions of the meeting are still being discussed at a hearing (RDP) in the DPR.

"The key word is that consignment is part of the agenda to equalize perceptions, and consignment is not an official agenda whose decision is an official decision. The official decision (is in) the RDP," said Rifqi.

He added that the consignment was deliberately held to overcome the deadlock experienced by the parties when discussing various election issues in formal meeting forums.