Slow ballot counting<\/p>\n
In addition to the frequent explanation given in the media
\nabout the slow ballot counting by the General Elections
\nCommission, which uses a computer network system with a
\ncentralized and closed architecture, the following explanation
\nneeds to be mentioned:<\/p>\n
1. The reason for the tardiness in vote counting is the manual
\npath from, respectively, the polls station (TPS), to the local
\nelections committee (PPS), from the PPS to the subdistrict
\nelections committee (PPK), from the PPK to the district\/mayoralty
\nelections committee (PPD II), where the data is fed into a
\ncomputer terminal.<\/p>\n
2. In the latest concept of information system design, it is
\nnecessary to distinguish the flow of information and the flow of
\ncontrol or the flow of validation. These two flows, depending on
\nthe context, may constitute one path or separate ones.<\/p>\n
3. In vote counting, in which accuracy and high speed are very
\nmuch expected while tardiness is, theoretically, often identical
\nwith decreasing accuracy, the flow of information should be
\nseparated from the flow of validation.<\/p>\n
4. What has been made a scapegoat in point 1 above should be the
\nflow of control or the flow of validation, while the flow of
\ninformation can always be separated by providing a TPS with a
\ncellular phone or an SSB radio; or in the absence of these
\ntelecommunications devices, by making use of the closest
\ntelecommunications nodes such as a local telecommunications stall
\n(Wartel) (of which there about 80,000), or mobile or stationary
\npostal outlets (about 27,000), etc., so that one second after the
\ncounting of ballot papers at each TPS has been completed, the
\nresult can be reported to the PPS. In this way, the possibility
\nof manipulation in vote counting by state apparatuses may be
\nminimized because the witnesses, the monitoring personnel and the
\nlocal community are still present when the result is reported to
\nthe PPS.<\/p>\n
5. Separate paths will enable mutual checking between these two
\npaths. In addition, the flow of information will usually be
\nfaster and more accurate because the participation of the local
\ncommunity is still intense, the source of primary data and the
\ndata are still fresh and are unlikely to be manipulated, while
\nthe use of different tabulation forms may lead to a deliberate or
\ninadvertent error.<\/p>\n
Around March 1999, we, of the National Coordination Office of
\nPopular Economic Posts (PER), along with our colleagues from the
\nCommunity Concerned Over Elections (Mapelu), made an offer that
\nthe network of the community of PER, made up, among others, by
\nthe Wasantara-Net network, which covers 107 cities from Aceh to
\nIrian Jaya plus 27,000 mobile and stationary outlets, the Telkom
\nMultimedia network, which reaches 12 cities with 1,140 ports, the
\nBukopin Swamitra network, which goes down to subdistrict in rural
\nareas, BRI, BNI, BTPN, the network of some 80,000 Wartel and
\n2,500 PER nodes, of which about 500 nodes are e-mail-connected,
\ncould participate in vote counting.<\/p>\n
At that time, our delegation was received by Adnan Buyung
\nNasution, accompanied by, among others, Hendra Dharsono, who is
\nresponsible for the vote counting information system. Dharsono
\ntold us then that UNDP could not accept a new proposal because
\nthe fund allocated for the information system was very limited
\nand that new participation was always possible on condition that
\nthe fund was made available by the aspiring new participant.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, through a number of colleagues, who represent
\na number of political parties, we have also suggested that vote
\ncounting monitoring should be conducted both in the manual path
\nand in the electronic expertise path. It is always likely that a
\ncomputer expert will move the votes given to a particular party
\nto another party through a simple programming algorithm which is
\nmade to look complicated. This is usually known as "computer
\nfraud".<\/p>\n
JUSTIANI<\/p>\n
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