Voting Rights Issue Reemerges
Ahead of the regional election on June 27, 2018, the issue of voting rights has reemerged as a topic of discussion. It was reported that around 6.7 million voters might be unable to exercise their voting rights.
An officer fills in data on a form to match and check the list of electoral voters in one of the houses of residents in Tulungagung, East Java, on Saturday (20/1). The updating of the list of 884,017 voters in the area was conducted simultaneously by the General Elections Commission (KPU) from Jan. 20 to Feb. 18, to be determined as the fixed list of the eligible voters to take part in the upcoming regional elections on June 27.
Voting rights remains an issue here, although Indonesia has held general and regional elections several times.
Ahead of the regional election on June 27, 2018, the issue of voting rights has reemerged as a topic of discussion. It was reported that around 6.7 million voters might be unable to exercise their voting rights, because they have not been issued electronic ID cards. Of the 152,093,310 people on the preliminary voter list (DPS), around 6,678,025 likely do not possess electronic ID cards.