Voting booths must be placed outside office complexes
Voting booths must be placed outside office complexes
JAKARTA (JP): The city's General Elections Committee has
banned government offices from constructing polling booths inside
office building compounds.
In the last general election, in 1992, polling stations were
also banned from government office compounds.
The city's committee found eight offices had violated the rule
and ordered local officials to remove them.
An official at the city's directorate of social and political
affairs in charge of this year's election said yesterday voting
booths should be built outside government office and state school
building complexes.
Data from the city's General Elections Committee revealed that
12,496 polling stations would be built. Of them 10,478 stations
would be in residential areas, 1,965 near government office
buildings and 53 would be mobile stations.
Mobile stations are for voters in hospitals and detention
centers.
The source, who requested anonymity, said traffic rerouting
during the campaign period was still being discussed by the
committee and City Police Headquarters.
The nationwide campaign period of 27 days will be from April
27 to May 23. There will be a four-day cooling off period from
May 24 to May 28 before the election on May 29.
The source said the committee would further discuss campaign
sites.
He declined to say if the City anticipated that some areas
would be riot-prone during the campaign.
The city's general elections committee and the three
contestants have agreed that the dominant Golkar party will be
the first to campaign. Contestants will campaign every three
days.
Agreement
The agreement says each contestant is entitled to nine rounds
in the campaign period.
Golkar will campaign on April 27, April 30, May 3, 6, 9, 12,
15, 18 and May 21.
The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) will campaign on April
28, May 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19 and May 22. The United
Development Party (PPP), on April 29, May 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20
and May 23.
The agreement was signed Friday by Lukman F. Mokoginta of PDI,
Rusjdi Hamka of PPP, Fattomy Ansaary of Golkar, and Bagus
Suharyono, who heads the city's social and political affairs
directorate.
On April 27 between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. task forces of all three
contestants must simultaneously install their campaign aids along
the city's main streets such as Jl. Imam Bonjol, Jl. M.H Thamrin,
Jl. Diponegoro and at the National Monument square.
Contestants can then place their campaign aids in other areas
across the city from 12 midnight to 6 a.m.
The nine campaign rounds are for mass gatherings between
campaigners and supporters. These will be divided into four
rounds in subdistricts, three for district levels and the other
two for mayoralty levels.
Contestants must stick to the campaign schedules.
From 6 a.m. to 9 a.m contestants can place placards, banners
and flags within a radius 500 meters from their campaign site.
Campaigns were scheduled from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., after which
contestants must clear up campaign aids from 6 to 10 p.m.
In the cooling period from May 24 to May 28, all contestants
must clear up their campaign aids. On May 29 a registered
7,453,416 Jakartans are entitled to vote. Ballot counting will be
conducted from May 30 to June 17. (11)