443 people register in bid for KPUD commission<\/p>\n
Bambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
As many as 443 people have been registered to undergo the first
\nstage of the selection process to become members of the city's
\nprovincial elections commission (KPUD) and the commissions for
\nits five municipalities and one regency.<\/p>\n
During the selection process, which started on Wednesday,
\ncandidates competed for positions on the five-member KPUD at
\nprovincial level, and 30 additional positions in five
\nmunicipalities and one regency, each commission of which will
\nhave five members.<\/p>\n
From over 400 people who took application forms for candidates
\nat KPUD provincial level, only 192 people had returned them to
\nthe secretariat of the selection team by the deadline on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Registered candidates for commission membership at
\nmunicipality\/regency levels number 30 from Central Jakarta, 45
\nfrom West Jakarta, 79 from North Jakarta, 72 from East Jakarta,
\n34 from South Jakarta and 23 from Thousand Islands regency.<\/p>\n
Syamsul Maarif, a member of the selection team, said on
\nWednesday that candidates who had passed the first selection
\nprocess on Thursday would take part in psychometric tests, and
\nthose short-listed would be interviewed.<\/p>\n
\"After the interviews, the team will select 30 candidates for
\nprovincial level. They will have to submit themselves to public
\nscrutiny. The selection team will place their names in newspaper
\nadvertisements, to give the public a chance to make their
\ncomments,\" Syamsul added.<\/p>\n
A similar procedure will also be used for KPU candidates at
\nmunicipality and regency levels.<\/p>\n
Syamsul added that from the 30 candidates for the provincial
\nKPUD, the team would select 10 of the KPU provincial members, who
\nwill have been installed by Governor Sutiyoso. The names of the
\nselected members would then be submitted to the national General
\nElections Commission (KPU).<\/p>\n
Syamsul also said the selection team would submit 10 names as
\ncandidates for each of the municipality and regency levels.<\/p>\n
KPU will select five of them to become Jakarta KPUD members
\nand also five for each municipality- and regency-level KPU.<\/p>\n
The five KPUD members from Jakarta, together with other KPUD
\nmembers from others provinces, will be installed in late May in
\nJakarta, while regency- and municipality-level KPU members are
\nscheduled to be inaugurated in mid-June in the provincial capital
\nconcerned.<\/p>\n
Members of the elections commissions at provincial and
\nregency\/municipality levels will work for five years. Their
\nofficial monthly salaries have not been revealed, but are
\nestimated to be around Rp 7 million for provincial-level and Rp 3
\nmillion for regency\/municipality-level KPU members.<\/p>",
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