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Can e-voting solve Indonesia’s election woes?
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6 Mei 2019
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Can e-voting solve Indonesia’s election woes?
• Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Ghina Ghaliya and Ary HermawanThe Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Mon, May 6 2019 / 12:56 am
Going digital: An Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology official demonstrates the e-voting system in Jakarta on Friday. The government may implement e-voting to replace the manual voting system. Hundreds of polling station workers reportedly died of fatigue after days of organization and ballot reporting.(JP/Seto Wardhana)
The idea of holding digital elections is picking up steam following reports that dozens of election workers died of reported extreme fatigue during and after organizing the nation’s first-ever concurrent elections, billed by many as “the world’s most complex”. While it is hard to determine if the April 17 general elections directly caused the deaths, a consensus has been reached that the current election system — in which five different paper-based elections are held on a single day — has to be changed. One of the proposed changes is for Indonesia to apply e-voting to make elections less complicated.
The proposal, however, remains controversial, with lawmakers saying that even after so many election-related deaths, e-voting still seems like a distant dream. The controversy revolves around the question of whether Indonesia — an archipelago with a population of more than 250 million people — is ready for e-voting and whether the technology is the right solution to election problems. Lawmakers, election organizers, election observers and election engineers have given different answers.
House of Representatives Speaker Bambang Soesatyo has called on members of the House Commission II overseeing home affairs to consider e-voting in a revision to the 2017 Elections Law. The commission, however, said it was unlikely that e-voting would be used in 2024. Indonesian voters, particularly those living in remote and