Election body launches website

Election body launches website

JAKARTA: The General Elections Commission (KPU) officially
launched on Wednesday its website to provide the public access to
the election process.

KPU chairman Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin said the website,
kpu.co.id, would help the presidential and legislative elections
run smoothly without losing public control.

He said the 1999 election was internationally acclaimed as the
most democratic to have been held in the country, but fell short
of a method to administer, present and publish data related to
the election.

"We don't want to make the same mistakes we did in the
previous election," Nazaruddin, a political scientist, said on
the sidelines of a ceremony marking the launching.

The election body has built a local area network (LAN) and
wide area network (WAN) to support its tasks from the
registration of voters to the vote-counting stage.

Via the website, the public will be allowed to register its
comments, share ideas and monitor the election process. -- Antara