Director General Of Dukcapil Ensures Beginner Voters Get Electronic ID Cards

JAKARTA - Director General (Dirjen) of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) Teguh Setyabudi ensured that voters who are 17 years old on voting day for the 2024 General Election will get an electronic ID card.

"Later, every non-Electronic KTP (renewant voters who do not have an electronic ID card at this time), who are 17 years old on February 14, 2024 (2024 election voting day), God willing, they will get an electronic ID card," Teguh said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 5.

This was conveyed by Teguh in response to the findings of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) regarding 4,005,275 voters who do not have an electronic ID card, but are included in the permanent voter list (DPT) in the 2024 General Election.

Teguh said that the district/city level Dukcapil Office had actually tried to make it easier to record electronic ID cards for novice voters by "picking up the ball", which was to bring electronic ID card recording officers to schools.

The target of recording the electronic ID card is the students who are 16 years old so that when they are 17 years old, the electronic ID card can be immediately handed over.

"We have recorded a lot of electronic ID cards in schools. Of the many million people, we have recorded only a few percent left. We will pursue this until the election (voting) is held on February 14, 2024," said Teguh.

Earlier on Monday (3/7), the Daily Executive (Plh) of the Chairman of the Indonesian Bawaslu Lolly Suhenty said that 4,005,275 voters in general are voters who are not currently 17 years old and 17-year-old voters are currently not making electronic ID cards.

According to Lolly, as many as 4 million voters could potentially not vote at the polling station (TPS) on voting day because they did not have an electronic ID card.

He said Article 348 paragraph (1) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (Pemilu) requires someone who has registered as a voter to show an electronic ID card so that they can vote. Bawaslu then asked the KPU to coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs to overcome the problem.