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        "msgid": "jakarta-declares-itself-ready-for-election-runoff-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-09-16 00:00:00",
        "title": "Jakarta declares itself ready for election runoff",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Jakarta declares itself ready for election runoff Bambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta Jakarta is prepared for the presidential election runoff on Sept. 20, with all of the election materials distributed to the subdistrict offices, Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPUD) head Muhamad Taufik said on Wednesday. \"One hundred percent of the materials have been distributed to the subdistrict offices. We are now just waiting for D-Day,\" he said.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta declares itself ready for election runoff<\/p>\n<p>Bambang Nurbianto, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta is prepared for the presidential election runoff on Sept.<br>\n20, with all of the election materials distributed to the<br>\nsubdistrict offices, Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPUD)<br>\nhead Muhamad Taufik said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\"One hundred percent of the materials have been distributed to<br>\nthe subdistrict offices. We are now just waiting for D-Day,\" he<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>The KPUD has distributed 7,067,106 ballot papers for about 6.7<br>\nmillion eligible voters in the capital. The number of eligible<br>\nvoters is similar to the number who took part in the first round<br>\nof the presidential election on July 5.<\/p>\n<p>Taufik said as many as 24,228 polling stations would be set up<br>\nin 267 subdistricts across the city. The KPUD will deploy 218,900<br>\npeople to monitor the voting on Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the KPUD had distributed materials to help blind<br>\nvoters cast their votes unassisted. There are about 4,400<br>\nregistered blind voters in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the second day of the three-day election campaign<br>\nperiod, there was little evidence in the capital of an impending<br>\nelection.<\/p>\n<p>Taufik said the KPUD was allowing the campaign teams for the<br>\ntwo presidential candidates to organize closed-door rallies in<br>\nthe city's five municipalities and Kepulauan Seribu regency<br>\nduring the campaign period, but neither of the teams was taking<br>\nadvantage of the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Irwanny Temmy, a campaigner for Megawati Soekarnoputri, said<br>\nhis team preferred door-to-door campaigning rather than<br>\norganizing limited public gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>He said his team had not printed many banners or posters as<br>\nthis was already done ahead of the first round of the election.<br>\n\"I think the public already knows our candidate. Therefore, that<br>\nkind of campaigning is no longer necessary.\"<\/p>",
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