There Are 4 Million Election Voters In 2024 Without E-KTP, Bawaslu Asks KPU-Kemendagri To Coordinate

Election illustration. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) advised the General Election Commission (KPU) to coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) to synchronize voter data without an electronic ID card (e-KTP) found by Bawaslu reaching 4,005,275 people. "The KPU coordinates with the Ministry of Home Affairs to synchronize the data of electronic non-KTP voters found by Bawaslu as many as 4,005,275 people," said Bawaslu member Lolly Suhenty, in his official statement, Monday, July 3, confiscated by Antara.

Thus, said Lolly, as many as 4,005,275 potential voters can still exercise their voting rights on voting day for the 2024 General Election which falls on February 14, 2024. Furthermore, Lolly said that around 4 million potential voters without e-KTP were new voters.

They consist of 17-year-old voters and 17-year-olds on February 14, 2024 but have not recorded the e-KTP. The two groups of voters without e-KTP have not been included in the voter list by the KPU. The data was found by Bawaslu after observing potential voter data without an e-KTP based on the attachment to the news of the recapitulation of voter data by the KPU at the provincial level.

According to Lolly, the presence of voters without e-KTP has an impact on the incommensurateness of their requirements as voters to exercise their voting rights at polling stations (TPS), as stipulated in Article 348 paragraph (1) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (Pemilu). The article regulates voters who are entitled to take part in polling stations, among others, the owner of the electronic identity card registered on the final voter list at the polling station concerned, the owner of the electronic identity card registered on the additional voter list, and the owner of the unregistered electronic identity card on the final voter list and additional voter list. Previously, the KPU set 204,807,222 voters, both from within and outside the country, who entered the final voter list (DPT) for the 2024 election.

KPU member Betty Epsilon Idroos said the number of voters in the 2024 General Election DPT consisted of 102,218,503 male voters and 102,588,719 female voters. "That is the national recapitulation of the final voter list of the 2024 election by the KPU," Betty said in an open plenary meeting of the national level DPT recapitulation for the 2024 General Election in the Main Session Room, KPU Office, Jakarta, Sunday, July 2.