Needdem Asks KPU To Consider Applications For Displaying Downloadable 2024 Election Data

KPU logo illustration. (Between)

JAKARTA - The Executive Director of the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) Khoirunnisa Nur Agustyati encourages election organizers, such as the General Elections Commission (KPU) to be transparent in presenting election data to increase public participation, especially young people in the 2024 election.

This was conveyed by Ninis, Khoirunnisa's nickname, in a discussion entitled "Fun Election, Uniting Indonesia", Thursday, July 28.

"Election organizers must be open with their data because transparency or openness will lead to participation," he said.

Transparency of data, he continued, should not only be presented on the KPU's official website in the form of documents that cannot be reprocessed, but presented on other media with data that can be processed in various forms of creation.

There is an increase in participation through data disclosure, continued Ninis, as evidenced by the experience of Perludem in encouraging the transparency of election data at the KPU in the 2014 and 2019 elections.

At that time, he said, Perludem encouraged the KPU to not only be transparent or present election data openly on their official website, such as regarding election participants for legislative candidates, but also to present data that can be reprocessed by the public.

“Usually, the data for legislative candidates is in the form of a PDF or an image. It was difficult to process again. We encourage this data to be processed again. At that time, we invited young developers (developers) to then process this data into an application that can be downloaded on the device, "said Ninis as reported by Antara.

Through such a method, he explained, the public, especially young people, will see the election as a fun thing so that they will be more interested in participating in it.

“With openness, such participations arise. With a large number of young people and high social media users, this requires efforts to make it easier for them to get information," said Ninis.

He conveyed that efforts to increase public participation, especially young people in the 2024 General Election, were not only centered on socializing the D-Day of voting or the types of elections available, but including socialization about election participants, political party programs, and track records of legislative candidates.