5,000 Poso residents have yet registered

5,000 Poso residents have yet registered

POSO, Central Sulawesi: Some 5,000 Poso refugees have yet to be
registered as eligible voters as of today. They are Poso
residents living in refugee camps in Tentena, North Pamona
district and in Poso Pesisir district.

Yasin Mangun, an official at the Poso General Election
Commission (KPUD), said on Monday that they were not registered
because officials from the Central Body of Statistics (BPS)
apparently skipped the refugee camps when they registered people
for eligible voters in the upcoming election.

He said that the KPUD wished in order to they could be
registered and then included as eligible voters. But, the
proposal was rejected by the central KPU because of the April 5
deadline was too close.

Finally, as consolation price, the central KPU ordered the
KPUD to list them as eligible voters in the upcoming president
and vice presidential election on July 5 and September 20
respectively, he said.

"We are afraid that those people are disappointed because they
miss the April 5 election. We will approach them in order to they
accept the decision," he said. -- JP