Home Affairs: 2024 General Elections Cannot be Postponed
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16 March 2021 08:30 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian on Monday announced that the 2024 general elections scheduled for April of 2024 will not be postponed.
“The 2024 General Elections (Pemilu) must be held. Governors, regents, and mayors could still be replaced by task executors, meanwhile, the President cannot,” said the former national police chief in a House Hearing on March 15.
He said that this is based on the 2019 elections which were held with societal dynamics that were under control and annulled conflicts that “potentially distresses state security.”
Karnavian believes the success of the 2019 election with 81.93 percent (192.7 million Indonesians) voters participation in an election held in 34 provinces is what motivates this decision to not change the date of the upcoming election.
“There were 866 officials who perished and 5,175 election officials who fell ill [in the 2019 election]. This is a lesson for us,” said the Home Affairs Minister.
Tito Karnavian also cited the 2020 simultaneous regional elections (Pilkada) as a lesson for the 2024 general elections, which were held amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
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