KPU Registers 214.3 Million Voters, Dominated by Millennial Generation

The General Elections Commission (KPU) has set the number of voters in the Continuous Voter Data Update (PDPB) for Semester I of 2026 at 214,357,667 people. Of this total, the voter composition is still dominated by the millennial generation, which accounts for 32.13 per cent of the entire voter list.

KPU RI Chairman Mochammad Afifuddin stated that updating voter data is a mandate of Law Number 7 of 2017, which must be carried out continuously outside of election stages. "In six months, we will meet again in this forum. In accordance with the mandate of Law Number 7 of 2017, continuous voter data updating is our duty. Among the non-election stage agendas that must be carried out is the updating of prospective voters," Afifuddin said after an open plenary meeting on the determination of the PDPB for Semester I of 2026 at the KPU RI Office in Jakarta on Monday.

Afifuddin also confirmed that the KPU would immediately follow up on various notes submitted by the Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), including findings in several regions. "What was conveyed earlier, we will check at several points. The national recapitulation indeed has no notes, but our colleagues from Bawaslu conveyed several findings at the district and provincial levels. We will immediately respond and confirm them, including whether there are regions that have not submitted data," he said. He assessed that coordination between the KPU and Bawaslu in the voter data updating process is now improving, thereby minimising data discrepancies.

Meanwhile, KPU RI Member Betty Epsilon Idroos explained that the total number of voters consists of 212,409,069 domestic voters and 1,948,598 overseas voters spread across 131 Indonesian representatives. "The total national voters, domestic and overseas, is 214,357,667 people. It consists of 49.85 per cent male voters and 50.15 per cent female voters. Compared to the PDPB for Semester II of 2025, there has been an increase of 1.12 per cent," Betty said.

Betty stated that based on generational groups, the largest number of voters comes from the millennial generation at 32.13 per cent. The next positions are occupied by Generation X at 27.13 per cent, Generation Z at 24.56 per cent, Baby Boomers at 14.29 per cent, and Pre-Boomers at 1.89 per cent. The KPU also noted that voters with disabilities account for approximately 0.45 per cent of the total voter list, with physical disabilities being the largest category at around 38.1 per cent.

West Java remains the province with the highest number of voters, at approximately 37.7 million, followed by East Java with 32.5 million, Central Java with 29.3 million, North Sumatra with 11.3 million, and Banten with around 9.3 million. Conversely, the provinces with the fewest voters are South Papua with around 387,000 voters, West Papua with around 394,000, Southwest Papua with around 453,000, North Kalimantan with around 546,000, and Papua with around 797,000 voters.