Jakarta Election Likely to Be Delayed

The Jakarta gubernatorial election is likely to be delayed because of discrepancies found between the central government’s voter list and the Jakarta administration’s list.

Nurul Arifin, a member of the House of Representatives Commission III, which oversees legal affairs, said that according to Home Affairs Ministry data, the number of voters in Jakarta is at 5.66 million, while on the Jakarta City Administration’s temporary voters list, the number is over 7 million.

“This voters list issue is crucial because the discrepancies are huge. This needs to be sorted out first,” Nurul said late on Friday.

The Home Affairs Ministry uses data from its e-KTP (electronic ID card) database, while the Jakarta administration claimed that the potential voters in the election was more than 7.5 million people.

Nurul said that the House had asked the Jakarta Regional General Elections Committee to re-verify the voters data. The committee has been given a week’s time to verify the list.

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