PPI proclaims end to national tally
JAKARTA (JP): The 53 members of the National Elections Committee (PPI) wrapped-up the 10-day national vote count of the June 7 elections on Thursday.
Chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Rudini said poll results would be officially announced on July 21. Validation of the results by the official Election Supervisory Committee is scheduled to follow a few days after the announcement.
Airplane engine trouble delayed the departure of North Sulawesi electoral officers to Jakarta on Wednesday, causing the provinces' tabulated poll results to be the last ones counted and verified at the PPI secretariat on Thursday.
In the final count, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) won in 12 provinces, while Golkar was placed second, after securing support from 13 provinces.
The PPI recorded a total of 105,786,658 votes counted, compared with 117,815,053 registered votes and 4,422,851 invalid votes. The committee also recorded that 93.54 percent of registered voters were able to exercise their voting rights.
The volatile Aceh province had the lowest participation with 69.98 percent, while the Maluku province recorded the highest with 109.28 percent. The PPI is investigating the surplus votes in Maluku.
Golkar won in Riau, Jambi, Irian Jaya, East Timor, West Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, South Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara, Central Sulawesi, West Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Southeast Sulawesi and North Sulawesi.
PDI Perjuangan won in Bali, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Lampung, Central and East Kalimantan, South Sumatra, Jakarta, North Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, West Java and Bengkulu.
The United Development Party (PPP) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) triumphed in Aceh and East Java respectively.
Calculations by The Jakarta Post, ahead of an announcement of stembus akoord (vote-sharing) agreements among the 48 political parties, put PDI Perjuangan in the lead. The party secured 154 of the available 462 seats in the House of Representatives (DPR). Golkar came second with 120 seats, while the National Awakening Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP) and the National Mandate Party (PAN) clinched 51, 39 and 35 seats, respectively.
Allocated seats for the DPR differ according to the quotient per province. The smallest quotient is for the province of Irian Jaya with 63,647 votes per seat, while the largest is for Yogyakarta with 300,680 votes per seat.
With the limited eligible vote-sharing agreements, some 12 million votes will not be accommodated in the House.
Only two political party alliances have been judged eligible to carry out vote-sharing agreements. The KPU is working on a solution to accommodate the remaining votes.(imn)