Students to monitor Bengkulu elections

Students to monitor Bengkulu elections

BENGKULU: Students from various universities in Bengkulu have expressed their readiness on Monday to monitor the elections of regional heads in the province on June 27.

"Students want the elections conducted fairly and transparently and this can be done by monitoring the voting and the vote-counting processes," said secretary of Bengkulu University Student Executive Body, Mahyudi Okmantik.

By monitoring the elections, he said the students hoped the leaders elected would be those chosen by the people.

A student from Muhammadiyah University in Bengkulu, Muksin, said students should monitor the elections since there were not enough observers register to do the job. "We don't want the elections to be engineered," he said. -- Antara