'Urban voter registration difficult'

'Urban voter registration difficult'

JAKARTA: The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) admitted on
Thursday that registering voters in urban areas was more
challenging than in rural areas.

Toto E. Sastrasuanda, deputy head of the voter registration
process told reporters here that people who lived in apartments
were rarely available for registration.

"Most of them are unavailable during the week because they
work many hours, and on the weekends, they go out of town on
vacation," he said.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) contracted the BPS to
conduct the nationwide census and the voter registration process
in a bid to attain an integrated database on population for the
aggregation on legislative numbers in each district for the
upcoming general election.

Thus far, the BPS claimed that the voter registration process
had reached about 65 percent of the process. The registration
started on April 1 and is expected to finish on April 30.--JP