Jakarta – The low public participation rate in the Jakarta gubernatorial election has drawn attention from the Legal Team of the Ridwan Kamil-Suswono Pair (RIDO). Regarding that finding, they reported the chairman and commissioners of the Jakarta and East Jakarta Regional General Election Commissions (KPUD) to the Election Organizer Honorary Council. (DKPP).
Member of the Legal Team for the RIDO Pair, Muslim Jaya Butar-Butar, stated that they reported to the DKPP with strong grounds that the organizers of the Jakarta regional election were unprofessional. In fact, their work resulted in very low voter participation in the Jakarta gubernatorial election, with a percentage of 57 percent, while the rest did not vote and did not come to the polling stations. (TPS).
“There is a violation of the principle of professionalism in the administration of elections in Jakarta.” That’s what we reported. The Jakarta KPUD should be able to guarantee good public service to voters. What is the service like? “Of course, this is related to the large number of C6 forms or Voting Notification Letters that were not well-distributed to the public,” he explained.
According to Muslim, this is part of the failure of the Jakarta KPUD as the organizer of the regional election in Jakarta. More specifically, this also represents a failure for the East Jakarta KPUD.
Because, in its records, many polling stations in East Jakarta had low voter participation, even less than 30 percent. This means that at each polling station, there were hundreds of eligible voters who could not cast their votes.
“This concerns the KPUD, which must guarantee service to the public; they must ensure that the public receives the C6 notification.” According to our sampling, especially in East Jakarta, the average participation in several sub-districts is only 30 percent. “If the voter list per polling station has 580 people, it’s highly likely that 300 to 400 people will not exercise their right to vote,” said Muslim.
That sample, continued Muslim, is only from East Jakarta. They suspect that the same thing happened throughout Jakarta, resulting in voter participation in Jakarta being only 57 percent. This figure also places this election as the one with the lowest voter participation in the history of Jakarta’s elections.
“There were 43 percent of eligible voters who did not come to the polling stations. If converted into the number of voters, it amounts to millions of voters,” said Muslim.
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