KPUD expects 1.1 million more voters<\/p>\n
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta<\/p>\n
While 4.4 million Jakartans voted in the April 5 legislative
\nelection, the Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPUD) expects
\nto register 1.1 million more voters for the July 5 presidential
\nelection.<\/p>\n
Member of the KPUD Hamdan Rasyid, said new voters would
\ncomprise those who had turned 17 after the general election,
\nnewly married couples, soldiers who had recently retired and
\nothers.<\/p>\n
A total of 6.48 million Jakartans were registered to vote in
\nthe legislative election, but only around 4.4 million actually
\nvoted.<\/p>\n
Hamdan said on Tuesday, KPUD assumed that around two million
\npeople, who did not vote on April 5, would not vote in the
\npresidential election either.<\/p>\n
\"With the addition of one million new voters, we hope that
\nsome 5.5 million people in Jakarta will cast their votes in the
\nnext election,\" Hamdan told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
To encourage people to vote, the KPU has twice revised the
\ndeadline for the registration of new voters.<\/p>\n
Initially, KPU set May 5 as the deadline, but the cutoff was
\nextended to May 10, and finally to May 17.<\/p>\n
Hamdan said KPUD invited all residents who had voting rights
\nto register themselves with their respective neighborhood or
\ncommunity units.<\/p>\n
Several heads of community and neighborhood units told the
\nPost that new voters had been keen to register.<\/p>\n
Yusin Kunarso, head of Community Unit (RW) 5 in Pejagalan
\nsubdistrict, West Jakarta, said around 300 people had registered
\nas new voters. Around 1,500 voters had previously registered with
\nthe Community Unit.<\/p>\n
He said he had reported the new registrations to the
\nsubdistrict office, but was anticipating that many more voters
\nwould register before the cutoff.<\/p>\n
Nana Sasmita, head of the Neighborhood Unit (RT) 3 in Cipinang
\nBesar Selatan subdistrict, East Jakarta, said around 15
\nadditional voters had registered there.<\/p>",
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