Jakarta Election Commission Lauded For Peaceful Gubernatorial Election

Minggu, 23 April 2017 07:12 WIB

Komisioner KPU RI Wahyu Setiawan. (Foto: ANTARAJATENG.COM/Sumarwoto)

Purwokerto, ANTARA JATENG - The National General Election Commission (KPU) has lauded the Jakarta KPU for successfully organizing the peaceful second round gubernatorial election (pilkada) in the capital city on April 19.

"Earlier, several observers had expressed worries over the media that the Jakarta pilkada had potential to become violent," Wahyu Setiawan, a commissioner of KPU, said here on Friday.

However, thanks to the maturity of Jakarta`s inhabitants, the recently concluded pilkada was peaceful, smooth, and democratic.

"This will become a social asset for us to organize the next simultaneous pilkada in 2018 and the presidential and legislative elections in 2019," he said.

The social asset is precious, because it concerns the public trust, he said.

The capability of the Jakarta KPU to provide the results of the pilkada also gained public trust, he remarked.

On Thursday, April 20, the Jakarta KPU uploaded the results on its official website.

The result is real, although it is not official, because the Jakarta KPU is still in the process of manual counting.

According to the results of quick counts conducted by several pollsters, Anies Baswedan and his partner Sandiaga Uno won the election against incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) who paired with Vice Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat.

The Jakarta KPU official website stated that the results showed 42.05 percent (2,351,245 votes) for Ahok-Djarot pair and 57.95 percent (3,240,332 votes) for Anies-Sandi pair.

The number of Jakartans who voted was 5,591,198 people.

A total of 64,523 joint police, military, and other security personnel were mobilized to maintain security during the election.

The runoff was held after no candidate pair managed to gain a majority in the first round of the Jakarta regional head election held on Feb 15, which was contested by three candidate pairs.

The three candidate pairs who took part in the election were Agus Harimurti-Sylviana Murni, Ahok-Hidayat, and Baswedan-Uno.

In the first round of the election, Agus-Sylvina received 17.07 percent or 937,955 votes; Ahok-Djarot received 42.99 percent or 2,364,577 votes; and Anies-Sandiaga received 39.95 percent or 2,197,333 votes.