Denmark to donate ballot boxes

Denmark to donate ballot boxes

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: Denmark will donate 10,000 ballot boxes
to Irian Jaya to help facilitate the June 7 polls in the
country's easternmost province, Chairman of the General Election
Commission (KPU) Rudini said.

"The 10,000 ballot boxes will soon be sent to Irian Jaya,"
Rudini said here on Sunday as quoted by Antara.

The ballot boxes are made of plastic so will not easily be
damaged during transportation from the polling booths in remote
areas to subdistrict capitals and then to the provincial capital,
he said.

Unlike other provinces in Indonesia, Irian Jaya has a complex
transportation problem, in that the ballot boxes must be
transported from polling booths to the provincial capital through
mountains, hills and rivers.

In view of the difficult land transportation, the KPU has
decided to ask the Danish government to provide Irian Jaya with
plastic ballot boxes, he said.

"I did that because when I was home affairs minister, I knew a
lot about the difficulties faced by the local government and
political parties," he said.