Govt pledges election totals for May 30<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Provisional election results will be made public
\nless than 24 hours after polling stations close at 2 p.m. on May
\n29, the government said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Coordinating Agency for Election Communication Systems'
\nspokesman, Tjetjep Suparman, said results for about 95 percent of
\nvotes were expected to be made public in the afternoon of May 30.<\/p>\n
The government created the agency to help provide and mobilize
\ncommunication links to transmit election results. The agency is
\noverseen by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Tourism,
\nPost and Telecommunications and Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n
About 120 million people are registered to vote at 305,219
\npolling stations across the country.<\/p>\n
Preliminary results from counting in the 27 provinces will be
\nbroadcasted by state television station TVRI from 7 p.m. on
\nelection day. Updates will be broadcasted hourly.<\/p>\n
All available communication links would be mobilized to
\nprovide speedy and accurate updating of ballot counting, Tjetjep
\nsaid. The agency would provide better and faster coverage than it
\ndid in the 1992 election.<\/p>\n
In 1992, provisional results for 95 percent of votes were
\nannounced at 2 p.m the day after the poll.<\/p>\n
The agency plans to utilize the national citizen band radio
\norganization and Indosat and PT Telkom networks to transmit
\nresults.<\/p>\n
The agency, whose senior staff consists of Armed Forces
\nofficers, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Communications
\nofficials, Telkom and Indosat staff, ran a final test of its
\ncommunication system yesterday.<\/p>\n
Radio frequencies<\/p>\n
The government will tighten controls on the use of radio
\nfrequencies from May 19 until June 9 to help facilitate ballot
\ncounting.<\/p>\n
Director General of Post and Telecommunications Djakaria
\nPurawidjaja said yesterday that the measures were needed to
\nensure that unauthorized use of frequencies did not disrupt the
\nCoordinating Agency for Election Communication Systems'
\nbroadcasts of preliminary results.<\/p>\n
"The government will take immediate action if it detects any
\nillegal use of radio frequencies," he said.<\/p>\n
Many people use radio communications equipment without
\nlicenses. This often disturbs official telecommunications
\noperators, including cellular operators, radio trunking
\nproviders, the authorities and other users.<\/p>\n
The government has raided illegal operators, but people
\npersistently use frequencies illegally.<\/p>\n
The agency would use a point-to-point communications system,
\nincluding radio communications equipment to transmit data from
\ndistrict polling booths to provincial election committees,
\nDjakaria said. (mds\/icn)<\/p>",
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