Counting continues, more areas hold rerun vote<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Election workers across the country continued their struggle
\nwith ballot counting in the legislative elections on Friday, with
\ntabulation in some areas two days behind schedule and further
\nreelections taking place.<\/p>\n
Official results must be announced by the General Elections
\nCommission (KPU) by April 28 (not April 26 as reported) but as of
\nFriday several workers at subdistrict levels had not met their
\nWednesday deadlines.<\/p>\n
In Lampung in southern Sumatra, the East Lampung head of the
\nlocal KPU, Agus Alfian, said on Friday many of the subdistrict
\nand village election workers "didn't even know how to count the
\nvotes" and admitted they had not received proper training.<\/p>\n
By Wednesday, all results should have been sent to the
\ndistrict election committees (PPK) but there were complications
\nin a number of areas, with computer trouble among the most common
\nreason given for the delays.<\/p>\n
By April 12, the PPKs are supposed to have sent their results
\nto the regental\/municipal offices (KPUD) of the KPU, to be
\nfurther verified and then delivered to the provincial offices.<\/p>\n
The central KPU then must document all results sent from the
\nprovinces, which it should receive by April 15, before the final
\nresults are announced by April 28.<\/p>\n
The KPU has not explicitly ruled whether the existing
\nschedule, which also includes the announcement of elected
\ncandidates and the finalizing of the seat allocation for the
\nparties by April 30, applies to places where elections had been
\nrepeated or delayed.<\/p>\n
Election officers in Lampung, meanwhile, said difficulties
\nencountered included how to fill in the forms with the necessary
\ndata -- the number of votes, spoilt votes and the numbers of
\nthose who didn't vote.<\/p>\n
The General Elections Commission (KPU) Lampung Province office
\nmember Edwin Hanibal revealed that only 30 polling stations in 25
\nvillages out of 2,220 stations from 228 villages had submitted
\ntheir reports to the KPU.<\/p>\n
In North Sumatra, about 135 computers in the KPU offices were
\nreportedly damaged, Antara reported. Election workers resorted to
\nphoning data by telephone to the KPU.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, several areas conducted reelections on Friday
\nbecause of election violations. The elections were repeated after
\nprotests from political parties.<\/p>\n
The repeated elections were conducted at two polling stations
\nin the Prosia district, Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi as the ballot
\npapers, which should have be used in the Konawe regency, were
\nused in Kendari municipality. The reelection was conducted
\nfollowing a consultation between the KPU Kendari office and
\nrepresentatives of the 24 contesting political parties.<\/p>\n
Separately, the KPU Bitung office in North Sulawesi decided on
\nFriday to conduct a reelection for regental council members due
\nto findings of violations on tallying in some polling stations.<\/p>\n
The decision was made after 23 political parties, excluding
\nthe Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), protested
\nthe results, alleging officers in some districts of manipulating
\nthe data. Supporters of the protesting parties occupied the local
\nKPU office for almost seven hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, 23 parties, excluding Golkar,
\ndemanded a repeated election because hundreds of ballot papers
\nwere missing. The papers were later found in a sack in a room of
\na district chief in Alak, Kupang after police questioned three
\nelection officers.<\/p>",
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