Pilkades 129 Villages In Hulu Sungai Selatan, Ministry Of Home Affairs Monitors Virtually Live To TPS

Simultaneous live virtual monitoring of Pilkades at HSS. (ANTARA/HO-Diskominfo HSS)

KALSEL - The Directorate General of Village Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) monitors the simultaneous election of village heads (pilkades) in 129 villages, Hulu Sungai Selatan Regency, South Kalimantan (Kalsel).

Assistant for Government and People's Welfare of the Regional Secretariat for Hulu Sungai Selatan Kamidi said the condition of the simultaneous Pilkades implementation was safe.

"Out of the 144 villages in Hulu Sungai Selatan, there are 129 villages holding the Pilkades simultaneously on Thursday with a registered voter list (DPT) of 137,043 people," he said in Kandangan, quoted from Antara, Thursday, June 2.

He said the number of polling stations was 356 TPS with 484 candidates for the village head.

Kamidi said that the Hulu Sungai Selatan Regency Government was synergizing with the security forces, particularly the local police and Kodim 1003/HSS, for security.

The Resort Police, he said, had mobilized 190 personnel to guard the village head election. Similarly, Kodim 1003/HSS almost all of its personnel were also deployed to the field.

Monitoring by the Ministry of Home Affairs is virtual live to randomly selected village polling stations.

He said that Hulu Sungai Selatan was the district in South Kalimantan which held the Pilkades first.

Monitoring on Thursday, he continued, the chosen point was TPS.02, Batang Kulur Kiri Village, Sungai Raya District.

"This monitoring is solely to see how conducive the Pilkades is in HSS. The most important thing is to ensure that the implementation is carried out by maintaining health protocols," said Director of Village Arrangement and Administration at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Risky.

Risky hopes that the TNI and Polri will continue to oversee the Pilkades activities until they are completed until the vote count stage.

His party from the Ministry of Home Affairs also held a direct dialogue with the Sungai Raya Sub-district Head Fathul Mushalli and saw the condition of the picture with live video to all parts of TPS 02 in Batang Kulur Kiri Village to ensure safe implementation and implement health protocols.