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PRESIDENT CHECKS PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTION IN JAKARTA
Jakarta, June 11 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here on Thursday asked Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo about preparations for the implementation of the upcoming presidential election in the capital city.
The head of state inquired about the fixed voters' lists (DPTs) and preparation of polling stations (TPS), Governor Fauzi Bowo told the press after a meeting with the president.
According to Bowo, Jakarta city administration officers had conducted random checks on voters' lists at the village administration offices of a number of densely as well as sparsely populated areas where people were reported to be satisfied about the voters' lists drawn up by local authorities.
The checking of the DPTs was done together with representatives of political parties that had communicated intensively with Jakarta city authorities.
"The DPTs have been announced and are now known to most Jakarta residents. We checked the lists and most of them were not criticized by either by the political parties' representatives or Jakarta residents," Fauzi Bowo said.
The voters' lists for the July 8 presidential election in Jakarta contained around 600,000 more names than those for the recent legislative elections, the governor said.
For the legislative elections of last April 9, voters' lists in Jakarta held 7,026,772 names but for the upcoming election, the number has increased to 7,667,994 , he said.
"It's , however, not an absolute increase as there were also decreases in and corrections to the lists for the legislative elections as there were people who had died or moved after April 9 but were still mentioned in the new lists," the governor said.
Meanwhile , the number of polling stations for the presidential election would decrease to 12,051 from 17,048 in the April 2009 legislative elections so that the numbers of voters at each polling station would be raised, he said.
In the one-hour meeting, President Yudhoyono also told the Jakarta governor to pay attention to several polling stations which were flooded during in the legislative elections.
Governor Fauzi Bowo admitted that more than 10 polling stations were submerged by floods as they were located in low-land areas or on river banks but now such unexpected circumstances had been anticipated.
He said last June 9, 2009, he had issued an instruction to all civil servants working in the city administration to observe strict neutrality in the presidential election.
The head of state inquired about the fixed voters' lists (DPTs) and preparation of polling stations (TPS), Governor Fauzi Bowo told the press after a meeting with the president.
According to Bowo, Jakarta city administration officers had conducted random checks on voters' lists at the village administration offices of a number of densely as well as sparsely populated areas where people were reported to be satisfied about the voters' lists drawn up by local authorities.
The checking of the DPTs was done together with representatives of political parties that had communicated intensively with Jakarta city authorities.
"The DPTs have been announced and are now known to most Jakarta residents. We checked the lists and most of them were not criticized by either by the political parties' representatives or Jakarta residents," Fauzi Bowo said.
The voters' lists for the July 8 presidential election in Jakarta contained around 600,000 more names than those for the recent legislative elections, the governor said.
For the legislative elections of last April 9, voters' lists in Jakarta held 7,026,772 names but for the upcoming election, the number has increased to 7,667,994 , he said.
"It's , however, not an absolute increase as there were also decreases in and corrections to the lists for the legislative elections as there were people who had died or moved after April 9 but were still mentioned in the new lists," the governor said.
Meanwhile , the number of polling stations for the presidential election would decrease to 12,051 from 17,048 in the April 2009 legislative elections so that the numbers of voters at each polling station would be raised, he said.
In the one-hour meeting, President Yudhoyono also told the Jakarta governor to pay attention to several polling stations which were flooded during in the legislative elections.
Governor Fauzi Bowo admitted that more than 10 polling stations were submerged by floods as they were located in low-land areas or on river banks but now such unexpected circumstances had been anticipated.
He said last June 9, 2009, he had issued an instruction to all civil servants working in the city administration to observe strict neutrality in the presidential election.
