Crash program launched for process ID cards<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Governor Sutiyoso has instructed all the city
\nsubdistrict heads to launch a crash program on ID card processing
\nto enable city residents to have new ID cards or have their
\nexpired cards renewed ahead of the June 7 general election, an
\nofficial said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Tursandi Alwi, an assistant to the city secretary on public
\nadministration affairs, said that the one-month program was
\nintended mainly to give a chance to young people already 17 years
\nold and eligible to get ID cards, and to others whose cards have
\nalready expired to process theirs.<\/p>\n
"The program is mainly focused on residents aged 17 years old
\nto process ID cards to enable them to participate in the
\nelection," he said.<\/p>\n
The program was open for all people eligible to have the ID
\ncards, including Betawi (native Jakartans), but not newcomers to
\nthe city, he said.<\/p>\n
"The program is not for newcomers or non-Jakartans," he
\nreiterated.<\/p>\n
Tursandi said that the program was needed to accommodate
\nrequirements for the June poll voters of the 1999 Law No. 3 on
\ngeneral elections which say that to become a voter one was
\nrequired to show an ID card or other identification like a
\ndriving license, a family card or a marriage certificate.<\/p>\n
According to him, out of the total of about 9.7 million
\nJakarta residents, the number of Jakartans eligible to vote in
\nthe poll was about 5.8 million.<\/p>\n
Data from the city population agency showed that the number of
\n17-year-olds who were eligible to posses ID cards was about
\n175,000.<\/p>\n
Out of about 1.7 million people in the capital who did not
\npossess an ID card, 1.5 million hold seasonal ID cards and the
\nother 200,000 do not have a card at all.<\/p>\n
However, no report is available yet on the number of 17-year-
\nolds who had made use of the chance. "We haven't recorded all the
\ndata," Tursandi said.<\/p>\n
Contacted separately by The Jakarta Post on Friday several
\nsubdistrict heads said that they had responded to the governor's
\ninstruction.<\/p>\n
The secretary of Bangka subdistrict in South Jakarta,
\nHerianto, said that the subdistrict officials had opened counters
\nat certain locations in all neighborhoods to facilitate the ID
\nprocessing.<\/p>\n
Cholid Munir, head of Rawamangun subdistrict in East Jakarta,
\nsaid that he had instructed neighborhood chiefs to remind their
\ncommunity members that their ID cards could be processed or
\nrenewed. (ind)<\/p>",
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