Send A Voice Letter For The 2024 Election, Pos Indonesia Will Collaborate With Private Expeditions

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JAKARTA - PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) together with State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) logistics clusters are partners of the General Election Commission (KPU) to distribute the logistics of the 2024 General Election (Pemilu), in this case ballots.

The SOEs that are members of the logistics cluster are PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), DAMRI, PELNI, PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo), PT Angkasa Pura I (AP I), PT Angkasa Pura II (AP II), General Company for Transportation of Djakarta Passengers (Perum PPD), and PT Surabaya Industrial Estate Rungkut (SIER).

President Director of PT Pos Indonesia, Faizal Rochmad Djoemadi, said that Pos Indonesia is not alone in sending ballots throughout Indonesia and abroad. PT Pos Indonesia will also attract private expeditions in the assignment.

According to Faizal, the task of sending ballots so that it is right on target cannot be carried out by SOEs alone without private assistance.

"It definitely requires a third party role, in this case private companies, because the time is very tight, and there are very many resources needed," said Faizal in a meeting with Commission VI of the DPR, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, July 11.

Faizal also said that in the assignment of sending ballots for the 2024 General Election, there were several conditions that must be obeyed, especially regarding logistics costs that must be competitive or affordable.

In addition, continued Faizal, operational costs must also be reduced, because the delivery is carried out in cooperation with various parties.

Then optimize the transportation cargo, both land, sea and air as well as various terminals. Then, we standardize logistics services in all operating linu. Finally, strengthen the positioning in today's market," he said.

Voice Letter Delivery Route

Faizal said that sending the 2024 election ballots would be carried out on more than 1 million domestic routes. Meanwhile, for voters who are abroad, sending election ballots will be carried out to more than 200 destination countries.

"Because this is PT Pos' network that works under the UPU (Universal Postal Union), this is also ready," said Faizal.

In this assignment, continued Faizal, PT Pos deployed more than 10,000 fleets owned, ranging from motorcycle fleets, blindvan, ankle trucks, to wingbox trucks.

Then there is multimodal cooperation, whether it's with SOEs or BUMS or other private sectors. Because it was very compact that there were sea, air, land, including port terminal managers because there were warehouses needed on land, and warehouses at the terminal," he said.