Tomorrow, over 190 million registered voters in the Muslim-majority country will cast their votes in just 8 hours of polling.
An Indonesian election worker on horseback, assisted by police officials, transports ballot boxes and election material to a remote village in Jember, East Java.
“This is a very big country so we’ll do our best,” Arief Budiman, the commission’s chief, told a recent gathering of journalists and diplomats.Calling on four-legged transport, motorbikes, speedboats and planes, officials have been distributing cardboard ballot boxes – guarded by armed security staff – to every corner of the 4,800km long archipelago, which is home to hundreds of ethnic groups and languages.
Plastic bags are being inserted into the boxes to protect millions of ballot papers in a tropical country used to pounding rainstorms. Violence also erupted as election material was delivered before local polls last year, resulting in the deaths of several police and election officials. “Usually, voters choose candidates who are from their village or family,” said Papua’s election commission head Theodorus Kossay.
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