The DKI KPU Has Prepared A Voice Letter For The Blind In The 2024 Election

The office of the DKI Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU), in Senen, Central Jakarta, Thursday (18/5/2023). BETWEEN /HO-Humas KPU DKI Jakarta.

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU) has prepared a ballot letter equipped with braille letters for blind people in the 2024 General Election (Pemilu). "Vocation letters for voters with visual impairments will be made into alert letters and braille letters that can be touched by fingers," said DKI Jakarta KPU member and Head of the Data and Information Division Fahmi Ziryptah when contacted in Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, July 19. Fahmi said that one of the facilities is expected to help people with disabilities, especially the visually impaired, to be able to channel their voting rights. Regarding the number to be prepared, his party is still waiting for a decision with the KPU of the Republic of Indonesia later. He added, based on data from the DKI KPU until July 2023, it was recorded that the Permanent Voter List (DPT) for the 2024 General Election was 8,252,897 voters. Of the total 8.2 million voters, 61,747 of them are people with disabilities. "The details are physical disabilities of 24,197 voters, mental disabilities of 22,871 voters, sensory speech of 8,935 voters, sensory netra totaling 3,958 voters, intellectual disabilities of 1,051 voters and sensory hearings of 735 voters," he said. Fahmi hopes that with the facilities available for disabilities, the voting rights of them can be conveyed in choosing future leaders. Previously, the DKI Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU) together with the DKI Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Office (Dukcapil) worked together to absorb voters who did not have an electronic ID card (KTP-el) ahead of the 2024 General Election. "From the Permanent Voter List (DPT) there are still 80,036 potential voters who do not have an e-KTP in DKI Jakarta Province," said Chairman of the KPU DKI Jakarta Province Wahyu Dinata in a written statement in Jakarta, Wednesday.

Wahyu emphasized that the electronic ID cards are an important requirement as voters in the 2024 General Elections Commission Regulation Number 7/2022 concerning the Preparation of Voters Lists in the Implementation of General Elections and Voter Data Information Systems. 2022.